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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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[–] gila@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

Rather than having a bunch of cops on patrol watching for people breaking the road rules and pulling those people over and fining them; in China there are mostly just lots of cameras. If you're caught breaking the law on camera too many times then they'll come to find you and take your licence away.

From there the thought process is, this is more insidious because of spooky cameras. And people do a thought experiment from there about "what other behaviour are they monitoring / what other penalties could possibly be imposed?" and pretend what they imagined is reality, evidenced by a kernel of truth. That authorities enforce road rules via camera surveillance in many countries isn't considered because, y'know, sinophobia.