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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.
Being anti-social is a right. Hate speech is protected speech. Now stop being a little bitch.
So far, doubleplusungood opinions can only get you fired from your job, ousted from company you founded, or get you arrested. Flying ban is only for those who happen to share a part of a name with a "person of interest".
But, worry not, a campaign of reeducation is underway. You have a teacher snowflake who demands to be called made-up pronouns (not merely the other of two genders) but other employees balk at that? The school gets to pay a $60k fine. And so on, so on.
The US, despite having a right-wing president, is going left to a ridiculous degree. But meanwhile, in some other countries the rightthink is different yet not-so-different. In Poland, we get all-out worship of "Cursed Soldiers", whose heroic deeds were alike that of Bury who didn't kill a single Nazi or Soviet but loved gathering villagers who happened to be Orthodox rather than Catholics into buildings, setting them on fire and shooting those who managed to get out.
Then, the rightthink in Islamic countries hasn't changed for 1439 years, consequences for disobeying it being well-known.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
What a big pile of bollocks. Thanks for your rambling, incoherent thoughts. Most welcome.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
In other news, black is white, up is down, and Trumpski is a great president rather than a disgusting traitor.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.