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What's the Truth About the "Social Credit System" in China? (lemmygrad.ml)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11229507

Recently, my country—not in European or American continents—will pass a bill about requiring ID for creating any social media account. There's a justified panic about it since the ghouls who runs the country sold our every single personal information repeatedly.

I've watched a person talking about the recent news, and they mentioned the "Social Credit System" of China. The person said if one's credit score is low, they can't ride a train or their children won't be able to go to good schools.

Now, the person is rather left leaning, and they usually talk about the capitalism's harm on human psyche. But them comparing the SCS to the ID verification gave me the ick. Is there any good explanation—whether in English or other languages—about the SCS? That way, I can refute the further misinformation about it.

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[–] bunnossin@hexbear.net 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Here's the actual law. It's just a system of restrictions for people doing business crimes and such. People don't get banned from riding trains or getting good schooling opportunities for having low "credit scores" (something that is never mentioned in the actual law), but from refusing to do something a court has ordered them to do.

Being restricted from leaving the country is another one people bring up a lot, and it's untranslated on that site, but according to Google Translate, it's also for judgement defaulters, people who haven't paid their taxes, and military deserters.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago

Here in the US, we firmly defend the rights of people to dodge taxes and military service

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