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stumu415@lemmy.zip 15 hours agoChina has no social credit score like the western media have you believe. The US has indeed a social credit score, designed to keep the majority of the population poor.
Comment on Wonder why?
stumu415@lemmy.zip 15 hours agoChina has no social credit score like the western media have you believe. The US has indeed a social credit score, designed to keep the majority of the population poor.
matlag@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
It doesn’t, but it has an unapologetic mass surveillance. In China, you use apps on your phone for absolutely everything and anything: all payments, use of public transport, shared bikes, ordering food, etc.
If you say something wrong, or if you’re just in a group chat where someone repeatedly say the wrong thing, your account can be suspended and suddenly you can’t do shit for several days. That keeps people in line, or they find other tricks to communicate, like swapping key words to trick the algorithms, or use VPN, though it’s also forbidden.