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Okay how would you feel if your score went down because someone you knew was "sketchy" (may just be the beliefs) to this system. Like this has made people cut t

• TheTruth321 8y ago
  Well ... that'd be just like the f@ckers moderating HN Hope you're listening.
• loceng 8y ago
  It's not good. That's what natural trust networks are meant for, and developing your own skill to protecting yourself, your family, the circle of people for whom you bring or consider within your circle - of whom you associate with hopefully without external pressure, although it certainly happens because of bias or vested interests. It shows a lack of integrity of the individual, and is a slippery and dangerous slope as Hitler and and the SS would want or require you to report your neighbours, etc - and it sounds like this is all without due process. If the Chinese people knew this literature, this history: I don't know if they do know, or what version they know, or if they know the similarities between what China is doing and what Nazi Germany did - which is where the grave concern for the system/layer of censorship is what I pointed out. I do have compassion and understand that if merely associating with someone with a "low social credit" brings your own credit score down, that based on if people do indeed know and are quiet about not talking negatively about government, then they may be doing so to protect themselves. They won't however know then if they distance themselves from these people what happens to them, if they are taken off in trains to "rehabilitation camps" for "rehabilitation" or murder.