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Credit scores + Facebook and ad networks but they're under checks and balances by Congress depending on the administration while funded and siphoned by CIA, tog

• gruez 6y ago
  >Credit scores ...which is based on your credit report, which in turn is mostly a record of what lines of credit you have taken out (credit cards, car/student loans, mortgages) and whether you have repaid them. meanwhile in china, they track that and also various subversive behavior like "spreading false rumors" and "walking a dog without a leash"[1]. >Facebook and ad networks You can opt out of all of those. Unless the DHS is forcing visitors to install facebook (or similar surveillance app), it's not really comparable to what they have in xinjiang[2] [1] https://apnews.com/article/9d43f4b74260411797043ddd391c13d8 https://apnews.com/article/9d43f4b74260411797043ddd391c13d8 [2] https://www.vice.com/en/article/7xgame/at-chinese-border-tourists-forced-to-install-a-text-stealing-piece-of-malware https://www.vice.com/en/article/7xgame/at-chinese-border-tou...
  • yorwba 6y ago
    Amusingly, most reporting on the Chinese "social credit system" is based on uncritically repeating Chinese government propaganda about how capable it's going to be. It was originally planned to launch in 2020, but that hasn't happened so far. If it ever does launch, you shouldn't be surprised if it is not nearly as powerful as people have claimed it to be.