Now the Chinese government takes data from those platforms to assign all people who use them a "social credit score."
In other words, the government monitors your web activity and gives you a grade. Your purchases, social interactions and political activity will determine what privileges you get.
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Today in China, if you email friends about books like George Orwell's "Animal Farm" or Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World," your message will be blocked.
Even pictures of Winnie the Pooh were banned because someone said president Xi Jinping resembled the stuffed bear.
And now, another step, one subtler than just banning things: the social credit score.
The government brags the system will "allow the trustworthy to roam everywhere under heaven while making it hard for the discredited to take a single step."
That's totalitarianism.
In China, Big Brother Is Watching Your 'Social Credit Score'
In other words, the government monitors your web activity and gives you a grade. Your purchases, social interactions and political activity will determine what privileges you get.
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Today in China, if you email friends about books like George Orwell's "Animal Farm" or Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World," your message will be blocked.
Even pictures of Winnie the Pooh were banned because someone said president Xi Jinping resembled the stuffed bear.
And now, another step, one subtler than just banning things: the social credit score.
The government brags the system will "allow the trustworthy to roam everywhere under heaven while making it hard for the discredited to take a single step."
That's totalitarianism.
In China, Big Brother Is Watching Your 'Social Credit Score'