Well this sounds a bit familiar...
Next step is adding a scoring system with penalties for certain behavior and it will be quite similar to the social system that is rolling out in China...
That's probably the inspiration, but like hell they'll manage to actually build something as functional.
I wouldn’t underestimate the engineering competence of Russians especially when it comes to autocratic surveillance tools. There are plenty of Russian-built tools and web apps that function quite well - Yandex, VK, etc. The west does not have a monopoly on innovation.
The west does not have a monopoly on innovation.
Nope - but it does look like we have the "monopoly" of being able to call out bullshit openly and not fear falling out of a window. Or being stabbed.
Oh that's coming. Stay tuned.
Yandex is a good example, VK - I'm not certain of that.
Anyway, what I meant is that such kind of social rating needs to source data from somewhere. That means integration with quite a lot of systems built for the Russian state, which often suck a lot. It's normal that half the time remote payments for utilities don't work, for example.
I mean, yeah, they can. But if it's going to be some nation-wide system for the government, the bureaucracy will practically kill this.
Observers on social media compared the platform’s name “We” to the highly influential 1921 dystopian novel of the same name by Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin.
They actually couldn't choose a different name than the novel that was written specifically about this very dystopian subject? Did they use it as inspiration? Because that seems more than coincidence...
Weibo and WeChat hide
It's a blocking method. If 90% of the people who search a term are looking for the social platform it becomes much harder to find the book. Think of it like trying to find archival news articles about a perennial topic. You have to wade through all the recent shit and then there's 2 hits from the time period you're checking.
The social rating figures don’t affect [a person’s] life, the availability of services or the career trajectory in any way
unless you're gay...
There are no gay people in Russia.
shoots gun
Not anymore
Then what are they for? Like the government just puts up a leaderboard and leaves it at that.
This is literally the plot for a Black Mirror episode.
This is literally the plot for *China.
From. Nosedive to be specific.
I think for was actually the right word choice there, because Black Mirror in no way came up with the concept
“The social rating figures don’t affect [a person’s] life, the availability of services or the career trajectory in any way,” RSSU said on the platform’s website. “But who knows what these figures will mean for you in the future?”
Well that's a relief...
When was the last time an entity that generated stats about someone didn’t end up with those stats being used to the detriment of the individual - or at the very least for the profit of another?
There was me thinking it could be used for something sinister.
I see the North Korea visit was pretty useful
They made meow meow beans?
They've taken everything subjective and unspoken about human interaction and reduced it to explicit, objective numbers. I've never felt so alive.
Cool.
Cool cool cool.
Let's see how the Make Russia China campaign goes!
I give this news 5 MeowMeowBeenz.
...but who knows...
Yeeaaaahhhhh, about that. We are totally not going the China way, its just that we are because fuck you.
Russia is a maffia state and should be dismantled, prove me wrong.
Omg, the RSSU, lmao. How is this not the Onion?
Named “We,” the platform promises to determine a user’s comparative “social status” based on a survey that includes questions about income, family status, benefits, creditworthiness, criminal record, lifestyle and state awards, among others.
Criminal record: putin's scoreboard of excellency https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3174724/russias-putin-decorates-army-unit-accused-ukraine-war-crimes
How many putinpoints do they get for using a 3 to 13million$ Kh-101 cruise missile to bomb a children's hospital chemo ward?
Putinism as it is. Oligarchy and survailance.
Seems like RSSU is fishing for the government's money.
It's probably very badly implemented and doesn't work as described. In a sense this is good, but my point stands.
Russia can into tinpot dictator.
You can see why all the M-Ls on this site want Russia to win their fascist invasion. Clearly the Revolution lives.
Some .ml fellas can explain that this is good, actually. Oil oligarch kleptocracy with murdering political opponent characteristics is one of the most leftist governments possible, so everything they do is good.
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