The Chicoms are upping the ante -- Social(ist) Credit Score for Every Citizen

[LAGC]

The Chinese state is setting up a vast ranking system system that will monitor the behaviour of its enormous population, and rank them all based on their "social credit."

The "social credit system," first announced in 2014, aims to reinforce the idea that "keeping trust is glorious and breaking trust is disgraceful," according to a government document.

The program is due to be fully operational by 2020, but is being piloted for millions of people already. The scheme is mandatory.

At the moment the system is piecemeal — some are run by city councils, others are scored by private tech platforms which hold personal data.

Like private credit scores, a person's social score can move up and down depending on their behaviour. The exact methodology is a secret — but examples of infractions include bad driving, smoking in non-smoking zones, buying too many video games and posting fake news online.

https://www.businessinsider.com/chin...plained-2018-4

Wow, what an Orwellian nightmare. Straight out of 1984.

Big Brother IS watching, and just like Santa Claus, he's making a list of everything you do... to see if you've been naughty or nice.

This is what happens when you allow surveillance cameras everywhere. The government eventually starts "mining" that information and putting it in searchable databases to be used against you at some future point in time.

Already, the Chinese government is using those social credit scores to punish people by banning them from flying or using trains, throttling their Internet speeds, banning their kids from the best schools, blacklisting them from getting the best jobs, and being publicly named and shamed if their scores dip too low.

Ugly.

[N/A]

That's what it is to be a leftist.
That's what it is to be a slave.

[ltorlo64]

This isn't anything new for them. They are just becoming more efficient at it by using computers.

I recommend we stop electing Republicans and just elect Democrats so we won't have the same thing happen here.

[alismith]

https://www.businessinsider.com/chin...plained-2018-4

Wow, what an Orwellian nightmare. Straight out of 1984.

Big Brother IS watching, and just like Santa Claus, he's making a list of everything you do... to see if you've been naughty or nice.

This is what happens when you allow surveillance cameras everywhere. The government eventually starts "mining" that information and putting it in searchable databases to be used against you at some future point in time.

Already, the Chinese government is using those social credit scores to punish people by banning them from flying or using trains, throttling their Internet speeds, banning their kids from the best schools, blacklisting them from getting the best jobs, and being publicly named and shamed if their scores dip too low.

Ugly.

No. This is what happens when Communists/Liberals/Progressives/Leftists/ Fascists/Dimocrats (they're all one and the same) run a country.

[JTHunter]

Rush was talking about this yesterday. He was comparing it to what "Freakbook" is doing with the way users react to various "news stories", esp. what THEY term to be "fake news". Naturally, most of what they term as "fake news" are conservative articles.
No surprise there.

[imanaknut]

Guy by the name of Adolph tried that about three quarters of a century ago. Didn't work out that well. He ranked people based on his and his general's feelings, then started exterminating the lower tier, with the plan on only keeping the elite. Nope don't think it will work today either.

Interesting theory from a very warped, sick point of view.