Everything you listed is common to all authoritarian systems not just fascism. China is authoritarian not fascist.
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SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 day agoNot agreeing with your dictator makes it impossible to leave the country, keeps your bloodline out of good schools, and if your rhetoric is bad enough you just get abducted and dissappear.
Social Credit Scores are dehumanizing and evil.
Pretty fascist if you ask me.
MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Saurok@lemm.ee 21 hours ago
The social credit score stuff is basically a Western myth. There was some local level rumblings and plans, but most of it has been unpopular or axed. The only thing that exists at a national level for individuals is the equivalent of a credit score in the US and western countries. I believed this narrative at one point, but then I delved deeper. technologyreview.com/…/china-announced-a-new-soci…
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
If you talk bad about the dictator they take away your right to buy train and airline tickets to escape the country.
This is real policy.
There are repercussions for saying you want free and fair elections, that is unacceptable
Saurok@lemm.ee 9 hours ago
Do you have a source so I could read more about it?
liyunxiao@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
No, no it’s not.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Ok live in fantasy world where the CCP public policy doesn’t say that.