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15 Apr 18
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After the Facebook and Cambridge Analytics stuff I find this Sesame Credit and other social score stuff in China even more worrying.
It is all a bit Minority Report. Ultimately deciding from your actions online whether you are allowed on trains get a visa to go overseas etc.
'In 2014, the State Council, China’s governing cabinet, publicly called for the establishment of a nationwide tracking system to rate the reputations of individuals, businesses, and even government officials. The aim is for every Chinese citizen to be trailed by a file compiling data from public and private sources by 2020, and for those files to be searchable by fingerprints and other biometric characteristics. The State Council calls it a “credit system that covers the whole society.”
For the Chinese Communist Party, social credit is an attempt at a softer, more invisible authoritarianism. The goal is to nudge people toward behaviors ranging from energy conservation to obedience to the Party. Samantha Hoffman, a consultant with the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London who is researching social credit, says that the government wants to preempt instability that might threaten the Party. “That’s why social credit ideally requires both coercive aspects and nicer aspects, like providing social services and solving real problems. It’s all under the same Orwellian umbrella.”'
https://www.wired.com/story/age-of-social-credit/
It is all a bit Minority Report. Ultimately deciding from your actions online whether you are allowed on trains get a visa to go overseas etc.
'In 2014, the State Council, China’s governing cabinet, publicly called for the establishment of a nationwide tracking system to rate the reputations of individuals, businesses, and even government officials. The aim is for every Chinese citizen to be trailed by a file compiling data from public and private sources by 2020, and for those files to be searchable by fingerprints and other biometric characteristics. The State Council calls it a “credit system that covers the whole society.”
For the Chinese Communist Party, social credit is an attempt at a softer, more invisible authoritarianism. The goal is to nudge people toward behaviors ranging from energy conservation to obedience to the Party. Samantha Hoffman, a consultant with the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London who is researching social credit, says that the government wants to preempt instability that might threaten the Party. “That’s why social credit ideally requires both coercive aspects and nicer aspects, like providing social services and solving real problems. It’s all under the same Orwellian umbrella.”'
https://www.wired.com/story/age-of-social-credit/
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Really nasty stuff this, a low rating and you have your energy switched off,no travel,no job and no rights."Goverment is GOD" so obay.
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All socialist systems are authoritarian. The Orwellian method will probably prove more effective at suppressing dissent than herding dissenters into Gulags or shooting them in the back of the head.
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lets not forget G5, that will be used for control worldwide, I do mean worldwide!!
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Already happening to some extent in Sweden and Germany. If you are heard saying the 'wrong' thing about a certain group you are likely to lose your job.
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terry you must be making this up you conspiracy theorist lunatic
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so wish I was Den, btw until you get Mexico and Charley calling you stuff you've had it easy
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I'm new here so all in good time
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oh yes
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