Recently, my country—not in European or American continents—will pass a bill about requiring ID for creating any social media account. There’s a justified panic about it since the ghouls who runs the country sold our every single personal information repeatedly.
I’ve watched a person talking about the recent news, and they mentioned the “Social Credit System” of China. The person said if one’s credit score is low, they can’t ride a train or their children won’t be able to go to good schools.
Now, the person is rather left leaning, and they usually talk about the capitalism’s harm on human psyche. But them comparing the SCS to the ID verification gave me the ick. Is there any good explanation—whether in English or other languages—about the SCS? That way, I can refute the further misinformation about it.
“China’s Orwellian Social Credit Score Isn’t Real” Foreign Policy 2018 https://archive.md/rVfyr
Basically it’s a myth created from a lot of crossed wires, combining different China news items about data collection to create a boogeyman.
The social credit system doesn’t actually exist, and that’s about the long and short of it. From the very beggining the whole thing was heavily misinterpreted mix of policies and potential suggestions that outsiders just ran with. That prolewiki link should explain it.
Capitalist media has a very strong tendency of running on engagement. So redactions don’t happen, and if they do, they are never spread as widely as the original story because it gets in the way of the witch hunt.
The ProleWiki is better but if you want an succinct explanation from a source libs will accept:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/11/16/chinas-orwellian-social-credit-score-isnt-real/
Here is a page about it on the prolewiki. https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System
I watched a very informative video about this topic a while ago, actually.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXrx9ryVaes
Its only 21 minutes and clears up a lot of the confusion. Basically it started with a vague government suggestion of a credit system to establish trust between different sections of the country and the actual interpretation & implementation of that system was left up to local governments whose results varied wildly but none were anywhere near the level of dystopian nonsense we’re often told. He doesn’t outright say it but he heavily implies that public misunderstanding of the social credit system was influenced by an episode of Black Mirror (also western journos fearmongering as usual) and not by reality.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
