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Chinese Journalist Banned From Flying, Buying Property Due To 'Social Credit Score' (cbslocal.com)
schwit1 shares a report from CBS Local: China is rolling out a high-tech plan to give all of its 1.4 billion citizens a personal score, based on how they behave. But there are consequences if a score gets too low, and for some that's cause for concern. When Liu Hu recently tried to book a flight, he was told he was banned from flying because he was on the list of untrustworthy people. Liu is a journalist who was ordered by a court to apologize for a series of tweets he wrote and was then told his apology was insincere. "I can't buy property. My child can't go to a private school," he said. "You feel you're being controlled by the list all the time." And the list is now getting longer as every Chinese citizen is being assigned a social credit score -- a fluctuating rating based on a range of behaviors. It's believed that community service and buying Chinese-made products can raise your score. Fraud, tax evasion and smoking in non-smoking areas can drop it.
..and thought 'That's a good idea!'.... Scary..
That is also something The Orville explored in the "Majority Rule" episode.
The Orville: Majority Rule
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer. - Ludwig von Mises
OK, you donâ(TM)t like the high profile ones?
What about the NJ Port Authority âoeEthicsâ Commissioner who spent 20 minutes yelling at a pair of NJ cops, trying to name and title drop, in an attempt to get her daughters friend off the hook for driving an unregistered vehicle?
Most governments, and the US for sure included, are rife with little corruptions and âoecourtesiesâ for the various members.
I do not want any of these people to be able to manipulate a âoesocial pointsâ system which is inevitably going to be gamed not only by them but by various parts of society.
We already ruin lives with prison, a social point system would just push the lowest members to the bottom and raise the highest members. Much like money does today. If you have it you tend to get more of it, and if you do not have it you tend to find it harder to get.
One book I know of was written in 1948.
And another one 6000 years ago where an all seeing being would punish you if you did something naughty. That was also the first reference to "Get of my lawn'"
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
China is *all about* stability. Chaos is what they fear, and rightly so. They had quite enough chaos in the last 150 years and Trump's tariffs are threatening even more.
Wow, you are lumping together the deaths of hundreds of millions with a tariff, that didn't even get implemented.
Truly Trump haters are bat-shit insane crazy, like the kind of crazy that literally set fire to themselves because they are so crazy. And people wonder why Trump is on such a winning streak, with people as crazily and slavishly devoted to introducing Trump in any topic on conversation, sane people shy away from you lot in droves.
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