The average mainland Chinese person may also have legitimately nothing to fear from a social credit system. I'm not defending it, but as long as the system does

The average mainland Chinese person may also have legitimately nothing to fear from a social credit system. I'm not defending it, but as long as the system does not escalate (which is probably not a given, despite all the slippery slope arguments), the average apolitical person might not even have to care. I guess the combination of social credit system and censorship makes things particularly insidious, because if you are unjustly affected then you can't appeal publicly. But at the same time, enough people will get good social credit scores that a majority of the population might support the system still.