China's Social Credit System seeks to assign citizens scores, engineer social behaviour
Chinese authorities claim they have banned more than 7 million people deemed "untrustworthy" from
boarding flights, and nearly 3 million others from riding on high-speed trains, according to a report by
the country's National Development and Reform Commission.
Key points:
- Various pilot projects have been launched throughout China ahead of 2020
- Chinese authorities use new advanced technologies to crackdown on crime
- Beijing could engineer society if it combines technology with its credit system
The announcements offer a glimpse into Beijing's ambitious attempt to create a Social Credit System (SCS)
by 2020 — that is, a proposed national system designed to value and engineer better individual behaviour by
establishing the scores of 1.4 billion citizens and "awarding the trustworthy" and "punishing the disobedient".
As the national system is still being fully realised, dozens of pilot social credit systems have already been tested by
local governments at provincial and city levels.
For example, Suzhou, a city in eastern China, uses a point system where every resident is rated on a scale
between 0 and 200 points — every resident starts from the baseline of 100 points.
One can earn bonus points for benevolent acts and lose points for disobeying laws, regulations, and social norms.
It's quite complex and the full story is here
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If the Chinese Government manages to amalgamate the regional pilot projects and the immense amounts of data
by 2020, it will be able to exert absolute social and political control and "pre-emptively shape how people behave.
^ Fu*k that shite
I wonder how it will work for non-citizens?