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Coming soon: America's own social credit system
The Hill ^ | BY KRISTIN TATE, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR

Posted on 08/03/2021 9:25:52 AM PDT by RandFan

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1 posted on 08/03/2021 9:25:52 AM PDT by RandFan
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The dirty little secret of a totalitarian society is that _everyone_ is an enemy of the state—no exceptions.

This is a lesson that often is only learned the hard way.


2 posted on 08/03/2021 9:29:21 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: RandFan

I could see it happening, but I could also see it getting hacked and deleted over and over until the government gives up.

There’s just no way the government here is competent enough.


3 posted on 08/03/2021 9:29:29 AM PDT by struggle
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To: RandFan

Pay cash whenever possible.

Big Brother would like nothing better than a card system, which monitors all your purchases.

Makes government thievery, and censorship, so much easier.


4 posted on 08/03/2021 9:30:02 AM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: RandFan

Americas social credit score has always been the access to lending called uniquely a credit score. What face book thinks of me and what J P Morgan thinks of me are based on 3 years of history of a free service vs 30 years of history with real money.

China has no financial credit score per say, and is the root of their current problem set. They have 60 years of history of people working around a failed system. Until the failed system is removed whatever the frosting is does not matter.


5 posted on 08/03/2021 9:30:42 AM PDT by protoconservative (Been Conservative Before You Were Born )
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To: RandFan

As with all such Draconian and de humanizing litigation, there is a class of people to whom this will NEVER apply! THEY are the ones fitting the rest of us up, for this f’n social straight jacket!!


6 posted on 08/03/2021 9:31:05 AM PDT by SMARTY (Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
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Social Credit is what the Mark of the Beast looks like. It determines whether you can buy or sell in the marketplace, whether you can work, go to school, travel, or live anything like a normal life. Kneel before your golden idol or beware the penalties.


7 posted on 08/03/2021 9:35:55 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We have two Democrat parties. 50% of the US population has no political representation.)
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To: struggle

Ah, but it’s not the government that will control your social credit score. It will be Social Media like Google, Facebook and Twitter.

Just like the government doesn’t control your financial credit score. Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion do.


8 posted on 08/03/2021 9:36:19 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

For the end times ping list


9 posted on 08/03/2021 9:37:54 AM PDT by Kevmo (Right now there are 600 political prisoners in Washington, DC.)
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To: RandFan

They demand you love big brother.


10 posted on 08/03/2021 9:38:24 AM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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11 posted on 08/03/2021 9:38:26 AM PDT by polymuser (BLA socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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“. . . the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ‘ Sounds fundamentally unconstitutional to me


12 posted on 08/03/2021 9:38:35 AM PDT by RatRipper ( Democrats and socialists are vile liars, thdieves and murderers - enemies of good and America.)
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To: cgbg

I don’t foresee the Republicans, should they somehow stumble into getting control of the congress, doing anything about this. The Repukes don’t stand for anything and are totally worthless. They simply refuse to defend our liberties and our rights.


13 posted on 08/03/2021 9:38:48 AM PDT by Starboard
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The Repukes don’t stand for anything

That is so unfair.

They stand for stealing as much as possible as quickly as possible!
14 posted on 08/03/2021 9:42:14 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Starboard

...but, but, but NEVER consider a new party to replace the Gutless Old Plutocratic Party (GOP). That is sacrilegious around here. /sarcasm


15 posted on 08/03/2021 9:42:21 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: RandFan

We can use it to deny things to liberals.


16 posted on 08/03/2021 9:43:27 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: RandFan

Robert Welch was right.


17 posted on 08/03/2021 9:43:39 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Social Credit is what the Mark of the Beast looks like.

I think you may be right. I've always thought the mark would have to have a moral component. This would fill the bill.

18 posted on 08/03/2021 9:45:33 AM PDT by viewfromthefrontier
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To: RandFan

Riots in the ‘60s were over far smaller social control issues...like saying bad words at Berkeley

Now the children of the people who staged those riots want to have a database to control everyone for everything

Funny that


19 posted on 08/03/2021 9:46:16 AM PDT by Regulator (It's Fraud, Jim)
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To: Starboard

They don’t challenge anything that the Democrats do once it’s done and the try to compromise with them before it’s done.

Compromise with evil is still evil.

The DNC is evil.

The RNC longs to get along with them,


20 posted on 08/03/2021 9:46:19 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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