The China-centric video sharing platform is expanding with a new international app and an English version of its website – with no identity verification (for now at least)
The China-centric video sharing platform is expanding with a new international app and an English version of its website – with no identity verification (for now at least)
Isn’t the dystopian social credit system in China just an exaggerated propaganda? I thought its a similar system to the US credit scores.
So generally, in the PRC, the central government will put out a request or state a problem, and then provinces will attempt to implement a solution independently. If the central government likes the out come of one of the trialed system they might make it national policy.
That’s basically what social credit was. The central government gave a vague cryptic request for potential solutions about low trust in modern society, and a bunch of different provinces implemented various ideas, some via contract to private companies. Some provinces didn’t trial anything, some trialed systems that were basically just credit scores, some trialed a system of ranking “how good of a citizen you are” and gave gift cards and stuff to people who scored high.
Ultimately, the central government choose not to adopt any of them and the various trials were spun down. So, social credit was a lot of things, and thus multiple different ideas of what it was are correct, but it wasn’t ever a nation wide thing and is largely defunct now.
Thanks, thats really interesting.
It’s identical basically
You got the direction of your argument wrong (credit scores are a big problem and proto surveillance state stuff) but no, the social credit system is indeed worse both in terms of what it is used to punish and the means of punishment.
Not arguing, asked a question if my knowledge of a topic was right.
And I was merely giving an answer.