China’s ‘Social Credit System’ Is a Totalitarian’s Dream Come True. Are We Far Behind?
I would argue, We've already started.
Deny man made global warming...go to jail in California, yet pass on aids and only receive a fine, criminal illegal alien?...you get a job in the california government...isn't that a social score?
Have a more factual point of view, know a bit of real history, have common sense...you not allowed to speak in our nations colleges...social score?
Want a wall at the nations border...your deemed a racist...social score?
Express an opposing view at work? get fired...social score?
There are many more examples.
"China’s rating scheme is the latest and most expansive effort by central planners to use government to encourage good behavior—or, rather, behavior deemed positive by the Communist Party. The system, which relies on vast amounts of digital data, has received scant attention in the United States."
Beware!...Black Mirror Nose Dive is with us.
Deny man made global warming...go to jail in California, yet pass on aids and only receive a fine, criminal illegal alien?...you get a job in the california government...isn't that a social score?
Have a more factual point of view, know a bit of real history, have common sense...you not allowed to speak in our nations colleges...social score?
Want a wall at the nations border...your deemed a racist...social score?
Express an opposing view at work? get fired...social score?
There are many more examples.
"China’s rating scheme is the latest and most expansive effort by central planners to use government to encourage good behavior—or, rather, behavior deemed positive by the Communist Party. The system, which relies on vast amounts of digital data, has received scant attention in the United States."
Beware!...Black Mirror Nose Dive is with us.
The other example was Senator Jon Tester of Montana. He voted against a few of the Democrats' pet projects back when Obama was in office and the DNC punished him by pulling their funding from his re-election campaign. You don't see him on the list of members of Congress any more.
There is nothing in China resembling the kind of freedom Americans take for granted. My father speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese and does business there, so I get first-hand stories of his blocked internet at the hotels, the bribes his Chinese business partners pay to the government for permits, the working conditions of factory workers, the culture, etc. Their culture is still that of basic feudalism - owners (government/Communist Party rulers) and serfs (common workers).
You're welcome to believe what you want about the DNC. To me, it is the epitome of cronyism in the United States and the exact kind of system the article was explaining: rewarding those who tow the Party line the best. We can see it in Nancy Pelosi, Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, Hillary Clinton, and many others. It is irrelevant that it is a "private" organization. So is the Communist Party in China! The question is how these organizations choose to wield their power to preserve themselves: do they do it based on a real meritocracy or a contrived one?
They are Still Coming down to confound our language.
It is to be 1984 with a smiley face save for when it is time when a rare failure to communicate calls for a frowny face.
It should be less expensive for the common good should the elite of the people's republic remind its citizenry from time to time that no one wants to meet Mr. Frowny Face.
Not ever
So just keep an eye on your rating score, y'all, share your bliss and have a~happy! happy! happy!~wonderful day.
Heck...we are already there...hey China, like always, you copy US.