Posted on 04/28/2021 4:51:07 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Is it really any different than how Twitter, Facebook, Google, YouTube, Instagram, et. al., police their platforms? Or how social media mobs in the west currently conduct preposterously biased witch hunts.
China’s Communist government has launched a new app that urges citizens to report anyone expressing “mistaken opinions” on the Internet. The new platform will also target anyone who criticizes the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), disputes the official CCP version of the country’s history, or traffics in “misinformation.”
The new website and app was recently unveiled by an arm of the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), and authorities called on users to play an “active role” in helping to identify “malicious people distorting facts and confusing” others. CCP authorities stated: “We hope that most internet users will play an active role in supervising society… and enthusiastically report harmful information,” adding that they strongly “encouraged” netizens to report fellow internet users who have the audacity to spread “mistaken opinions” online in order to create a “good public opinion atmosphere.” Particularly egregious offenses would apparently include “distorting” the Party's history, attacking its leadership and policies, and “denying the excellence of advanced socialist culture.”
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This new app is in addition to and augments China’s existing oppressive social credit score system that bans people from traveling and engaging in other basic societal activities and functions if they commit even minor “infractions” such as jaywalking or buying too much junk food.
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We have been conditioned to accept Social Credit Score. Corporations already have ESG scores (Environmental, Social and Governance).
“Is it really any different than how Twitter, Facebook, Google, YouTube, Instagram, et. al., police their platforms?”
No, not really.
The CCP invented airplanes, and you had better believe it, or else!
I wonder if Google, Twitter and Facebook are feeding our data into the Chinese Social Credit Score system.
Not just airplanes. They think they created the heavens and the Earth. They intend to re-take control over what is rightfully theirs.
Forward!
“War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery and Ignorance is Strength.”
Yes sadly. They should be doing the Governance, or you end up like a mid-west Utility that had some hanky panky and it cost them in their share price until people realized it was a bargain and they'll get through it. The Social, don't even get me started. The Environmental is nutso, they are doing it now to keep their cost down, either fuel or reducing toxic chemicals in manufacturing.
These are the things you need to do to run a business, but they have made it a thump my chest, look at me or better yet, the rating agencies of the world just accepting this malarkey and rating them based on this stuff, vs do I really think it well run and selling a product someone wants.
It's forcing them to become good Comrades, and I can't friggen stand it. It's no different than the ehhem, "Consultants to direct HR", ISO 9000, and customer standards such as use only "CAD system X" (when they had other customers that required system "Y" & "Z") that caused a lot of small business men and women in the early 90's to sell to a bigger fish rather than deal with all this, it was too much $ and bureaucratic hassles, they sold and retired in FL.
Small business IMHO will be hurt again...
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