Posted on 05/28/2019 5:02:03 PM PDT by bgill
Bottom Line With Boris - Chinese social credit system shows dangers of big data and socialism
A short 1:35 minute video at link.
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Or you can’t buy airplane/train tickets.
Or they won’t let you leave China, or will limit the amount of money you can take out of China.
Developed for the ChiComs by our social media giants who are using components of it to silence conservative thought in Western democratic republics.
It is Cass Sustein’s book “Nudge” brought to life. We already see echos of it in health insurance signups and wellness programs that reward “good” and punish bad. Social media has taken it to the next level with censorship, throttling, warnings, popups poisoning the well. They WANT the same full totalitarian monitoring and control, oppression by algorithm system here.
Here’s a short story on what that would look like in the U.S.
Sesame Credit, USA
https://libertyislandmag.com/2019/02/12/new-sci-fi-fiction-sesame-credit-usa/
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