Comment on CIA propaganda down the drain

• Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “There has been a widespread misconception that China operates a nationwide and unitary social credit “score” based on individuals’ behavior, leading to punishments if the score is too low. Media reports in the West have sometimes exaggerated or inaccurately described this concept. 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. 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”.”

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  • donuts@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Exactly, but if you read the Chinese version. (google translated link) then the content is very different.

    This not only answers my original question, but also highlights the irony that we trust English Wikipedia pages over social media comments, but not Chinese Wikipedia pages over social media comments.

    I was hoping someone with more knowledge about Wikipedia and how language-specific pages are vetted can help figure this one out.

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    • haydng@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Pages in different languages have no connection to one another outside the subject being linked. Each language’s page is written and moderated by speakers of that language who can choose to write whatever they like.

      Wikipedia is apparently banned in China, so on that basis, I’d probably be a bit dubious about content regarding life there where I couldn’t verify the sources

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      • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And half the moderators of both versions are probably working in various click farms for various agencies like the cia, fsb, cccp etc. 😅

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It says one source considers it a myth, but specifically points to a lack of an actual score, and then goes on to show how the metrics are actually kept and what they are for. So it sounds like the “myth” is that they don’t actually have a single numerical score for a citizen, but they do have extreme restrictions on their freedom based on what they do with their money and shit.

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• RandomVideos@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As someone who has used both romanian and english versions of wikipedia, i can say that language versions are radically different

  The english version of a page could have thousands of words, while the romanian version be only one sentence long

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