It is already here with deplatorming and the erasures of informaiton.
And the credit scores and tracking through twitter and fb and instagram
...and not being able to eat in certain restaurants or play softball games without getting shot or wear certain clothes or put certain bumper stickers on your car.
“It is already here”
I think it was either jointly developed with US tech giants,
or techniques first developed by US Tech companies were tailored for the Chinese communist oppression application.
And informally via companies saying “let us see your social media accounts to verify you’re a cultural fit before we hire you”.