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People Changing Jobs Too Often Could Be Punished by China's Social Credit System (abacusnews.com)
Lots of things can hurt your social credit in China. Failing to repay your debts, plagiarizing academic articles and building a debt-laden tech empire and then fleeing to another country, to name a few random examples. One province now wants to add another "discredited behavior" that seems much more harmless: Switching jobs too often. From a report: Zhejiang is pushing to build a local social credit system that will, among other things, deem residents a "discredited" person if they move from job to job too frequently, according to a local TV report. "If someone keeps quitting and landing new jobs, his social credit will definitely be a problem," Zhejiang official Ge Pingan said at a local forum, addressing a complaint from one company's human resources department about being unable to do anything when employees want to leave. Ge didn't specify how "frequently" is too frequent, but he said the upcoming system will put restrictions on both companies and individual workers.
Every article that I read on this is propagandized to hell and back. Here's a thread from a journalist who has actually read through the stuff. People who owe tons of back taxes might be forced to buy regular plane/train tickets instead of first class. The horror... The horror...
https://twitter.com/isgoodrum/status/975536363364696064?lang=en
Thank you, anonymous coward Chinese troll, for your delightful fake facts.
AP News: "China bars millions from travel for ‘social credit’ offenses". ref
Business Insider: "China has already started punishing people [with low social credit] by restricting their travel. Nine million people with low scores have been blocked from buying tickets for domestic flights, Channel News Asia reported in March, citing official statistics." Ref: https://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-system-punishments-and-rewards-explained-2018-4
Wikipedia: "Travel ban. By the end of 2018, 5.5 million high-speed rail trips and 17.5 million flights had been denied to prospective travellers who were on a blacklist." ref
And the "social credit" system is also used, yes, to enforce politics. Wired: "If solving problems was the real goal, the CCP would not need social credit to do it," she says. "China’s social credit system is a state-driven program designed to do one thing, to uphold and expand the Chinese Communist Party’s power." (Ref: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/china-social-credit-system-explained
Really? Who is trying to deplatform those they don't agree with? It isn't the right.
Yes it is.
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They love the word "liberty," but hardly any of the policies they want would increase liberty. They would just replace it with corporate dictatorship.
They would replace our current imperfect freedom with an America of nothing but gated communities with repressive regulations that can't be challenged in court, and corporate malls with repressive regulations that can't be challenged in court.