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Beijing To Judge Every Resident Based on Behavior by End of 2020 (bloomberg.com)
China's plan to judge each of its 1.3 billion people based on their social behavior is moving a step closer to reality, with Beijing set to adopt a lifelong points program by 2021 that assigns personalized ratings for each resident. From a report: The capital city will pool data from several departments to reward and punish some 22 million citizens based on their actions and reputations by the end of 2020, according to a plan posted on the Beijing municipal government's website this week. Those with better so-called social credit will get "green channel" benefits while those who violate laws will find life more difficult. The Beijing project will improve blacklist systems so that those deemed untrustworthy will be "unable to move even a single step," according to the government's plan. Xinhua reported on the proposal Tuesday, while the report posted on the municipal government's website is dated July 18.
Dude, why go there? I happen to be trans and liberal and I'm horrified by this. This something right out of 1984 and it has nothing to do with "liberals". I'm quite sure I enjoy my freedoms and privacy as much as you do. I have no idea what you have against trans people but that doesn't mean we don't want the same things in life. The last place I would ever want to live is in a totalitarian state.
Are you joking? We do business in places where they abduct American residents, torture them, chop them up into pieces and dissolve them in acid.
Because there's money to be made.
You are welcome on my lawn.
No government in history has willingly given up power.
A Roman poet wrote "a rare bird in the lands and very much like a black swan". At the time, black swans were thought to not exist. In the 1500s, the phrase "black swan" was a common expression that something was impossible. Then in 1697, Dutch explorers saw black swans in Western Australia. The phrase then morphed into an expression that a perceived impossibility might later be disproven.
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They do not need mandatory GPS in cars. They already have number plate readers everywhere. Plus they can track your phone.
You're kidding, right? Right-leaning farmers, restaurateurs, constructionn/real estate developers LOVE having illegal immigrants here, since they provide the cheap labor those industries need. They just want to make sure those immigrants STAY illegal, since with a path to citizenship, their easily exploitable labor pool collapses.
Using them as a convenient scapegoat to drum up votes from the politically illiterate and bigoted working class is just a fortuitous side effect.
The Republican leadership has never had ANY intention of building a wall or engaging in mass deportation. The shows made of child separation, etc. are merely intended to on the one hand fool bigoted proles into thinking something to be done and on the other to terrify undocumented migrants out of using social services while here and speaking up for better treatment.