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China's 'social credit' System: Could it Happen Here in the States?


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2019 Apr 2, 4:13pm   892 views  8 comments

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The Chinese government is building an omnipotent "social credit" system that is meant to rate each citizen's trustworthiness.

By 2020, everyone in China will be enrolled in a vast national database that compiles fiscal and government information, including minor traffic violations, and distils it into a single number ranking each citizen.

One of the most high-profile projects is by Sesame Credit, the financial wing of Alibaba. With 400 million users, Alibaba is the world's biggest online shopping platform. It's using its unique database of consumer information to compile individual "social credit" scores.

However, Sesame Credit will not divulge exactly how it calculates its credit scores, explaining that it is a "complex algorithm".

Details on the inner workings of the system are vague, though it is clear that each citizen and Chinese organisation will be rated. A long list of people in certain professions will face particular scrutiny, including teachers, accountants, journalists and medical doctors. The special list even includes veterinarians and tour guides.

A national database will merge a wide variety of information on every citizen, assessing whether taxes and traffic tickets have been paid, whether academic degrees have been rightly earned and even, it seems, whether females have been instructed to take birth control.

Critics say the social credit system is "nightmarish" and "Orwellian". However, some believe that some kind of credit system is badly needed in China.

BBC: 26 October 2015

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34592186

The majority of the elements are in place for the Social Credit System to be implemented.

Not in China.

In the United States.

We have:

The databases

The digital surveillance

The national credit score system

The systems of reward and punishment

The government-knows-best attitude

The electronic purchasing data

The ubiquitous social networks

Think about it. China started with Alibaba and Tencent.

In the United States, we have Amazon and Facebook and Google.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-31/chinas-social-credit-system-its-coming-united-states-soon

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1   FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut   2019 Apr 2, 4:33pm  

First they have to take away our guns and destroy family unit. After that they can do anything.
2   FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut   2019 Apr 2, 5:11pm  

Liberal social credit system:

Gay 10 points
Tranny 15 points
Not white 20 points
Anti white 30 points
Abortion (10 points each)
Anti gun (15 points)
Feminist 25 points
Anti religion 20 points
3   FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut   2019 Apr 2, 9:15pm  

TrumpingTits says
Democrat Candidate Andrew Yang is already on it:

New York entrepreneur and Democratic 2020 candidate Andrew Yang wants to implement a system in which a government-run mobile app rewards Americans with “digital social credits” (DSCs) for good behavior.

Americans would receive DSCs under Yang’s system for things such as “participating in a town fair,” “fixing a neighbor’s appliance” or “tutoring a student,” his presidential campaign website explains.

“As individuals rack up DSCs, they would have both a permanent balance they’ve earned over their lifetime and a current balance. They could cash the points in for experiences, purchases with participating vendors, support for causes, and transfer points to others for special occasions,” Yang states on his website. “As their permanent balance gets higher, they might qualify for various perks like throwing a pitch at a local ballgame, an audience with their local Congressperson or meeting their state’s most civ...


It's funny, how nice he makes it sound. Like it's just prizes to be given away. Not a peep about what happens to people who don't earn enough, and get their rights and privileges taken away by government.
4   WillPowers   2019 Apr 2, 9:25pm  

TrumpingTits says
New York entrepreneur and Democratic 2020 candidate Andrew Yang wants to implement a system in which a government-run mobile app rewards Americans with “digital social credits” (DSCs) for good behavior.


It's like an episode of "Black Mirror" in which the main character goes around giving people a high 5 point rating then only receives a 4.5 or lower and she needs a 4.7 to rent the apartment she wants and in her desperation to attain the high dream score of 4.7 she keeps falling further behind and it is very sad as well as sickening that people would allow such a dehumanizing measure of man to run their lives.
5   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Apr 2, 10:39pm  

TrumpingTits says
New York entrepreneur and Democratic 2020 candidate Andrew Yang wants to implement a system in which a government-run mobile app rewards Americans with “digital social credits” (DSCs) for good behavior.


This system would be called racist and sexist, since middle aged White guys who keep their lawn mowed, rarely get a parking ticket, and stop to help change a woman's tire would have Mega Scores, and Ghetto Rats would not.
6   everything   2019 Apr 3, 11:58am  

Works in theory, occurring naturally and ubiquitously in the blue zones.
7   FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut   2019 Apr 3, 2:50pm  

MisterLearnToCode says
TrumpingTits says
New York entrepreneur and Democratic 2020 candidate Andrew Yang wants to implement a system in which a government-run mobile app rewards Americans with “digital social credits” (DSCs) for good behavior.


This system would be called racist and sexist, since middle aged White guys who keep their lawn mowed, rarely get a parking ticket, and stop to help change a woman's tire would have Mega Scores, and Ghetto Rats would not.


If this were to lead to unequal points, it would mean in CA that points need to be redistributed, plus additional points for reparations.
8   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2019 Apr 4, 3:31am  

In China, dissident candidates for public office are investigated by the secret police on trumped up charges.

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