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New York Post: China’s ‘Social Credit System’ Is Dystopian Nightmare

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Imagine calling a friend. Only instead of hearing a ring tone you hear a police siren, and then a voice intoning, “Be careful in your dealings with this person.”

Say you arrive at the Beijing airport, intending to catch a flight to Canton 1,200 miles south. The clerk at the ticket counter turns you away because — you guessed it — your social credit score is too low.

Not only are you publicly humiliated in the ticket line, you are then forced to travel by slow train. What should have been a three-hour flight becomes a 30-hour, stop-and-go nightmare.

All because the government has declared you untrustworthy. Perhaps you defaulted on a loan, made the mistake of criticizing some government policy online or just spent too much time playing video games on the internet. All of these actions, and many more, can cause your score to plummet, forcing citizens onto the most dreaded rung on China’s deadbeat caste system, the laolai.

And the punishments are shocking. The government algorithm will go as far as to install an “embarrassing” ring tone on the phones of laolai, shaming them every time they get a call in public.

The government will slow down your internet connection, ban your children from attending private schools and even post your profile on a public blacklist for all to see.

According to Australia’s ABC News, the government has produced a “Deadbeat Map” via an app on WeChat, which shows a radar-style graphic identifying every laolai in the vicinity of the user.

There are reports that those whose social credit score falls too low are preemptively arrested and sent to re-education camps
. Not because they have actually committed a crime, but because they are likely to.

The government claims that its purpose is to enhance trust and social stability by creating a “culture of sincerity” that will “restore social trust.”

What it will actually create, of course, is a culture of fear and a nation of informants.

This is because one of the ways that people can improve their own social credit score is to report on the supposed misdeeds of others


www.technocracy.news/new-york-post-chinas-social-credit-system-is-dystopian-nightmare/

https://nypost.com/2019/05/18/chinas-new-social-credit-system-turns-orwells-1984-into-reality/

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Imagine calling a friend. Only instead of hearing a ring tone you hear a police siren, and then a voice intoning, “Be careful in your dealings with this person.”

Say you arrive at the Beijing airport, intending to catch a flight to Canton 1,200 miles south. The clerk at the ticket counter turns you away because — you guessed it — your social credit score is too low.

Not only are you publicly humiliated in the ticket line, you are then forced to travel by slow train. What should have been a three-hour flight becomes a 30-hour, stop-and-go nightmare.

All because the government has declared you untrustworthy. Perhaps you defaulted on a loan, made the mistake of criticizing some government policy online or just spent too much time playing video games on the internet. All of these actions, and many more, can cause your score to plummet, forcing citizens onto the most dreaded rung on China’s deadbeat caste system, the laolai.

And the punishments are shocking. The government algorithm will go as far as to install an “embarrassing” ring tone on the phones of laolai, shaming them every time they get a call in public.

The government will slow down your internet connection, ban your children from attending private schools and even post your profile on a public blacklist for all to see.

According to Australia’s ABC News, the government has produced a “Deadbeat Map” via an app on WeChat, which shows a radar-style graphic identifying every laolai in the vicinity of the user.

There are reports that those whose social credit score falls too low are preemptively arrested and sent to re-education camps
. Not because they have actually committed a crime, but because they are likely to.

The government claims that its purpose is to enhance trust and social stability by creating a “culture of sincerity” that will “restore social trust.”

What it will actually create, of course, is a culture of fear and a nation of informants.

This is because one of the ways that people can improve their own social credit score is to report on the supposed misdeeds of others


www.technocracy.news/new-york-post-chinas-social-credit-system-is-dystopian-nightmare/

https://nypost.com/2019/05/18/chinas-new-social-credit-system-turns-orwells-1984-into-reality/

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What’s scary is this, now in 2019, is a real thing.

Yes, it is not happening in the US but the world is allowing China to do this to a billion people.
Just an FYI, I'll be reporting both of you.
 
What’s scary is this, now in 2019, is a real thing.

Yes, it is not happening in the US but the world is allowing China to do this to a billion people.

Pardon me, but what do you mean by "allowing"?
Is China asking someone permission or something?
I don't understand that verb in this context.
 
Pardon me, but what do you mean by "allowing"?
Is China asking someone permission or something?
I don't understand that verb in this context.

Maybe he is saying that it is morally objectionable and blatantly against the human rights of their citizens? This is a sort of soft crimes against humanity.
 
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Maybe he is saying that it is morally objectionable and blatantly against the human rights of their citizens? This is a sort of soft crimes against humanity.

Morally objectionable? Yes

But what’s a “soft” crime against humanity? Seriously - this is the 12,341st ranked bad thing that’s happening in the world right now. I hope this works out for the Chinese. Those guys could use a break.
 
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