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Posted on 11/25/2018 6:05:41 PM PST by robowombat
China refuses millions of citizens to buy airline and train tickets If Chinese citizens buy "too many" computer games or share false news, they can be penalized. The government's social credit rating can have consequences such as losing the opportunity to book airline tickets - and to have pets.
Millions of Chinese are refused to buy airline or train tickets, writes The Independent . The reason is China's new system of social credit rating, which is used to monitor and assess residents. Are you Chinese, your behavior affects your social credit rating. While a credit rating is usually used to estimate how likely it is that you can run a loan, China's social credit rating will provide government information about where "trustworthy" citizens are.
The system rewards Chinese people who donate blood and work voluntarily while breaking traffic laws, smoking where prohibited, buying "too many" video games and sharing false news online is punished, according to Foreign Policy .
11 million refused to fly In parts of China, including in Hangzhou, Shanghai, the system is introduced. It is expected that it will be nationwide by 2020.
According to the state-run news agency Global Times , the authorities had blacklisted 11.14 million Chinese people from booking airline tickets, while 4.25 million refused to book tickets for jet jets. In addition, three million have been deprived of the opportunity to book business class train tickets.
The goal of the system is to make it more difficult for "unreliable" residents and organizations to move freely, writes The Independent . In a plan published this week, according to the newspaper, among other things, "those who break the law and lose trust will pay an expensive price."
The goal is for people with bad social credit rating to become bankrupt, writes Global Times . The state-run news agency also cites what should be a Chinese government employee that "if [China] does not increase the cost of being discredited, we urge discredited to continue as usual."
It is uncertain how China will penalize citizens with bad credit ratings beyond restricting the ability to move freely, but The Independent writes that it will probably mean slower internet, becoming blacklisted for some jobs and hotels, limited access to good schools and losing the right to own a pet.
In addition to low-risk residents being punished by losing opportunities and rights, the authorities will also publish lists of who are "unreliable".
Slave training.
If Putin were doing this in Russia, the US media would be screaming. But since the ChiComs have a financial interest in the US media, this story is not reported.
What I am about to say has probably never been taught in American schools. When the Soviet Union was still around, they controlled the populace by denying them the ability to leave their small, local area. One had to have their ‘papers’ in order to travel to anywhere outside of their local town. And, here’s the key, they did not provide ‘papers’ to millions of their ‘citizens’ (really prisoners). In present day China, they are just taking it to the next level. Incorrect action, thought, suspicion of same will have dire consequences. If you arrest and make disappear a few million, the billions still alive will act, and think’ correctly.’
And what tech companies are assisting them in this effort? Don’t be evil!
You really think it will happen to a non Chinese? Nice of you to stick up for a well-documented abusive red China.
OOPS! They didn’t pass the credit score!
I appreciate your boots-on-the-ground report on China. Be aware, yours is an extremely limited view (one in a nation of billions) and is very anecdotal, but it is appreciated nonetheless.
Some of these reports are likely true and you haven’t been effected, such as the Social Score story that appeared recently.
And some of these reports are pure bullshit.
So if you donate blood and volunteer, all while smoking and breaking traffic laws....is that good or bad?
Good luck with that system trying to Oppress 800 million people
this is our future.....some of us on the other side of 60 will be gone when it all comes to fruition, but our children and our grandchildren.......*sigh*
Anyone who wants to outlaw cash money needs to be executed by firing squad.
In China, they do the opposite ...
We really, really need to bring back American production ...
What I am about to say has probably never been taught in American schools.
Never meaning since the late 80s early 90s perhaps ...
For what ever it is worth, I am married to a fine Chinese wife and I am quite established in China. I have a large network of friends and business associates all through China. In fact, my network is far, far, FAR larger than anything that I ever had in the States.
Whenever there is an issue, I’m usually made aware of it.
(1) When the corruption police was cracking down on pollution emissions, I found out about it promptly and followed the issues earnestly.
(2) When the Zhejung government started cracking down on non-bank loaning efforts, I was smack dab in the middle of it.
(3) When the “Great firewall of China” went up, I watched it closely. My IT was busy and we were very involved making sure that our access to gmail and skyPE was not adversely affected.
In general, must of what we read in Western Media are distortions of what is really going on. Sometimes the distortions are so terrible to be far removed from reality; they are unrecognizable.
To which, I must say... UNLESS you experience something personally, it’s all potential fake news.
Hey! Those potholes in Pennsylvania still aren’t fixed. Even after a couple of hundred of tax increases. But, I guess that is not as exciting to read about. You want to read how the Chinese have mastered Big Brother technology and using social media to control the people.
Well...
How about, instead of reading about this you actually get on some Chinese social media platforms yourself. Then you can see how it affects you. WeChat, QQ, are just for starters.
That’s all that I am saying.
Seriously people, stop being spoon-fed the “news”. It all stopped being news two decades ago. Now it is all computer generated manipulation.
People... the MOST DANGEROUS news, is the news you WANT to believe. For then you are most prone to manipulation.
“Don’t be Google.”
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Interesting. I will concede all of your points.
Speaking of airports:
Then along came Mao and everything changed>
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