In 2019, the central government voiced dissatisfaction with pilot cities experimenting with social credit scores. It issued guidelines clarifying that citizens could not be punished for having low scores and that punishments should only be limited to legally defined crimes and civil infractions. As a result, pilot cities either discontinued their point-based systems or restricted them to voluntary participation with no major consequences for having low scores.[4][7] According to a February 2022 report by the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), a social credit "score" is a myth as there is "no score that dictates citizen's place in society".
Damn, this dude has to pick the shittiest aspects of every other country and implement them. But even the shitty countries have socialized health care and things like paid maternal leave. Does he pick those features? Of course not.
Nobody here in China knows wtf a social credit score is. Also the healthcare is less socialized than your average European country, but they do take measures to keep costs down.
I don't know a lot but I made a comment about it before that I share here with some basic info and further reading. I'll post it here.
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TL;DR:
ICE contractor ShadowDragon uses their platform SocialNet to map individuals' digital footprints, personal data and connections across 200+ sites such as OnlyFans, WhatsApp, Roblox and Duolingo.
ShadowDragon claims it accesses data in real-time without storing it, sidestepping some accountability.
ICE and other agencies, including the DEA and State Department, use SocialNet for investigations, citing its utility in tracking criminal activity, despite their unwillingness to prove that criminality in court.
Link to the 404Media article without the required sign in.
Link to Mozilla's follow-up article which mentions some additional involved companies.
And when you have an industry surrounding it (specialised companies that do only this & fund lobbies) the system just becomes a perpetual business for the sake of it, can't get rid of it.
Like filling for taxes in USA (or did that just recertify change?).
Or private prisons.
Too much profit incentive & too many people involved to allow it to be dismantled once it became obvious the product doesn't work/it doesn't give any added value.
And it determines where you can live, what jobs tou can hold, and wheree your kids can go to school. The system that was developed immediately aftyer the federal government said you can't discriminate on race is definitely fair.
Hey Iran, if you're listening, and you're looking for a soft target to add to your retaliation list for the recent attack...well while you probably can't break into the White House, something tells me Palantir's offices are a lot less heavily defended...They also do a lot of intelligence work, so they're a valid military target.
For downvoters: China has no global "social credit system". There was one medium-small city that implemented what we imagine for a bit (though with the harshest punishments being things like inability to purchase luxury train tickets, not imprisonment like the propaganda says), but abandoned the project. There is a "social credit" or "public trust" system that has pretty wide adoption, but in almost diametric opposition to the Western propaganda, it's not for keeping tabs on citizens, but rather government officials and contractors, to ensure interagency knowledge of any impropriety. I.E. precisely the sort of system that would help prevent a cadre of hacks and conmen from infiltrating government agencies and abusing them for personal gain.
yeah the Nazi shit snuck into this meme with the "kosher tier" shit on the text of the phone is gonna be a no from me dogg. Israel loves antisemitism actually. It would be a good idea to actually fight antisemitism and help Jewish people everywhere feel safe so they don't buy into Israeli BS telling them they're only safe there.
To be fair US is lacking proper database of all people living in it, and also people identifying properly. Current system is a huge mess. This OF COURSE should be done by the government and never in a million years should this be in hands of private companies. This will never happen in current US system because that would be communism, if country knows who exists.
Edit: people misunderstanding that I would support this shit. No, definitely this is not the case.
lacking proper database
Pretty certain this was and always has been intentional. I also thought pushed by conservatives. Harder to round up everyone if we don't knowvwho they are. Also easier to cheat on taxes, as I understand.
No no, I wasn't supporting this shit. There is no use for this for the people of the country.
All civilized countries have proper sealed government owned databases that tell who lives in the country. This makes everyday life for everyone easier. Things like identity theft are impossible if there is db like this, which can be used to identify people in secure manner.