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I think the difference is in the secrecy. In the US, at least in principle, the system is not secret - in China secrecy is the rule - the party is not supposed
by zby 10y ago
I think the difference is in the secrecy. In the US, at least in principle, the system is not secret - in China secrecy is the rule - the party is not supposed to be judged from outside.
- enraged_camel 10y agoWhat? No. The vast majority of the stuff the OP listed is secret. You don't know - and have no way of finding out - the various ratings the IRS, the insurance companies, border patrol, the FBI, etc. use to rate you. In fact the only rating you can easily access is your credit rating.
- berntb 10y agoI think the main difference is that you will still get most jobs in the west, even if you have the "wrong" opinions. Like reading Chomsky's collected works in the US. (Or follow Islamist web sites in, well, any country.) I.e., it is mainly for commercial/security reasons in the Western world, not for political control of the population.