In the Haidilao Hot Pot restaurant in... Vancouver, more than 60 surveillance cameras watch 30 tables and send feeds to China. The cameras, manager Ryan Pan explains, are there to "people track" and are "part of the social credit system in China." In 2014, China's State Council issued guidelines for the establishment of a national "social credit system" by 2020, with the feeds from about 626 million surveillance cameras and smartphone scanners and with data from a multitude of sources ... For example, criticizing Chinese ruler Xi Jinping would result in the lowering of an individual's score.
“There are consequences for low-scored individuals. As officials say, the purpose of the system is to “allow the trustworthy to roam everywhere under heaven while making it hard for the discredited to take a single step.” People with low scores have been denied social services, mortgages, and even the right to board trains and planes. There are also “interconnecting repercussions for family, friends, associates, and businesses both in and outside China,” Mitchell, an investigative journalist and co-author with McGregor of the upcoming The Mosaic Effect, tells Gatestone.”
After World War II, Alexander Solzhenitsyn was sent to the Soviet Gulag for writing a brief derogatory comment about Stalin in a letter home. Are we headed that way?
How soon 'til Biden's thugs want to copy this one...