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Who will define "bad"? In China, "bad" means opposing government corruption. > When [reporter] Liu Hu recently tried to book a flight, he was told he was banne
by leereeves 8y ago
Who will define "bad"? In China, "bad" means opposing government corruption.
> When [reporter] Liu Hu recently tried to book a flight, he was told he was banned from flying because he was on the list of untrustworthy people. Liu is a journalist who was ordered by a court to apologize for a series of tweets he wrote and was then told his apology was insincere.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-social-credit-system-surveillance-cameras/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-social-credit-system-surv...
> Liu had posted information about embezzlement by a local official, Ma Zhengqi, on his personal page on the Weibo social network because he knew that censorship would prevent its publication in the newspaper.
https://rsf.org/en/hero/liu-hu https://rsf.org/en/hero/liu-hu
- Hydraulix989 8y agoIt depends. If you have more political power than the person you are reporting, then you will be fine.
- creaghpatr 8y agoTheir system is easier to execute, definitely more difficult to pull off in bipartisan US with public and private sectors.
- AlexandrB 8y ago> Who will define "bad"? That's why I put it in quotes. "Bad" in this case depends on what a company thinks makes you high-risk or otherwise undesirable as a customer. In the case of health insurance, it may be when Google or Facebook classifying you as having a sedentary lifestyle. In the case of banks it may be if you take too many trips to Vegas. In the case of the NSA, it may be posting negative things about the current administration. Because it's distributed among many actors, it will be like the existing credit score system - mostly opaque and unaccountable. Good luck convincing an insurance company that Google misclassified your behaviour.