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>It is planning what it calls a “social-credit system”. This aims to score not only the financial creditworthiness of citizens, as happens everywhere, but also
by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>It is planning what it calls a “social-credit system”. This aims to score not only the financial creditworthiness of citizens, as happens everywhere, but also their social and possibly political behaviour.
This already exists across the world in the form of credit rating agencies and social media. It's merely an issue of data integration
- elefanten 9y agoExcept its: 1. Centrally regulated and collected 2. Mandatory 3. Explicitly includes matters of ideology and opinion So, it's hardly comparable to what is extant under the surface in other countries.
- wu-ikkyu 9y ago1. So is Facebook and the credit rating agencies in the US 2. No it's not, it was unsuccessfully tested in a single county 3. So do the judgments of employers on whether or not to hire or fire someone based on publicly expressed political ideology It may make us feel better to point the finger over there to distract from the parallels of what is going on locally but doing so is hardly practical.