Fast Company: Silicon Valley Is Building a Communist-style ‘Social Credit’ System

Breitbart ^ | 26 Aug 2019 | Allum Bokhari

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Fast Company has caught on to what Breitbart News has been highlighting for some time: that the Big Tech Masters of the Universe are developing systems to monitor and regulate personal behavior that closely resemble China’s totalitarian “social credit” system. The “social credit” system assigns all Chinese citizens a “social credit score.” A citizen’s score drops if he engages in a range of disfavored activities, ranging from littering to supporting political dissidents.

Citizens whose score drops low enough can find themselves subject to strict punishment, including bans from the use of public transport, exclusion from top jobs, and prohibitions on their children attending top-rated schools.

This may sound alien and Orwellian, but as Fast Company notes, Silicon Valley is bringing a version of this grim reality to America.

Via Fast Company:

Many Westerners are disturbed by what they read about China’s social credit system. But such systems, it turns out, are not unique to China. A parallel system is developing in the United States, in part as the result of Silicon Valley and technology-industry user policies, and in part by surveillance of social media activity by private companies.

The articles goes on to note a range of ways in which western citizens are being systematically rated, and in some cases excluded, by corporate America. These include insurance companies scanning the social media feeds of applicants, an app called “PatronScan,” that logs the face and name of troublesome bar and restaurant clientele, and the growing tendency of services like Airbnb, Uber, and WhatsApp to ban users for arbitrary reasons.

[elbook]

Sounds like something that is going to make alot of lawyers rich when customers start being denied because of subjective/faulty/biased data collection - via a litmus test applied by various companies and corporations (the deep pockets) that will be challenged in court and huge awards made to people who’s privacy and rights have been trampled by these chi-com-like neo-commies.

There probably will be evasive action to give reason for denying business access (ie- declaring ‘DENIED’ with no reason given), but clever people will figure out how to trace the abuse and some even make alot of money suing.

[tbw2]

Except it can be used to limit your access to financial services now. Example: payment processors like Paypal, Patreon and Chase killing your access if they don’t like your politics. It has hurt Pamela Gellar, the founder of Jihadwatch and the leaders of the Proud Boys.

Sesame Credit, USA
https://libertyislandmag.com/2019/02/12/new-sci-fi-fiction-sesame-credit-usa/