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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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[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago

There was a fad amongst regional governments in China to aggregate different databases of public records into one big one that was open to the public to search. Public records could range from court rulings to business licenses.

The sort of people who have the most public records tend to be business owners and these efforts resulted in a sort of panopticon on the Chinese bourgeoisie. Now a local citizen could look up who owns a restaurant, what other business they own, how many health code violations each of those business had, and if the owner ever beat his wife, all in one database.

These were referred to as social credit systems but no "score" was ever associated with them. Some wonkier Chinese technocrats did propose plans to assign numbers and consequences to those numbers but AFAIK they were never implemented. The phrase "social credit score" did work its way into the jargon of the Chinese youth but it came from the US joke meme.

still digging up the source for all this but it was from a podcast that was interviewing the maintainer of 'China Law', a crowd source effort to translate Chinese law into English.