People are giving the CCP too much credit in believing how far ahead they are in rolling this out. The social credit system is an idea and an initiative. Some s

People are giving the CCP too much credit in believing how far ahead they are in rolling this out. The social credit system is an idea and an initiative. Some systems try to implement some of its ideas on various levels. But there is no one social credit system. Most articles do a pretty bad job at separating CCP's ambitions from the actual implementation. Basically any data driven tracking effort in China will be presumed to be part of the "social credit system" effort. But one has to understand that doesn't mean they are actually part of a coherently connected and integrated system. Many articles often talk about there being a "score" in the system but they're just talking about a score in one of the many systems out there. Usually they mean Alibaba's.