Orwellian Citizen Score, China's credit score system, is a warning for Americans

[LiteCoinGuy]

Orwellian Citizen Score, China's credit score system, is a warning for Americans

In China, every citizen is being assigned a credit score that drops if a person buys and plays video games, or posts political comments online “without prior permission," or even if social media "friends" do so. The ACLU said the credit rating system, an Orwellian nightmare, should serve as a warning to Americans.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2990203/security/aclu-orwellian-citizen-score-chinas-credit-score-system-is-a-warning-for-americans.html

[Lethn]

Let's be realistic, with all this politically correct bullshit going on it's already happening but simply unofficially, free speech and expression isn't protected anymore, if you read certain publications or talk about things that certain people consider 'offensive' they can and will attempt to ostracise you for it, it doesn't matter how innocent your intentions are the mere fact that you've been onto places the politically correct crowd object to is enough to get you on their shit list even if you don't really take part in the discussion much.

It's already happening on reddit and other forms of social media, twitter is a classic and more extreme example, the only difference is there's no scoring system so you don't know how well you're doing in their eyes, they simply ban you or try to attack you right away. I think arrogance and smugness is going to bite people in the arse if they look at other countries and think that kind of crap can't possibly happen where they are.

[criptix]

Good lord i dont use social media buy stuff for fun with cash and dont live in china  

Btw. Similar systems are in use worldwide ( just without the videogames and political comments stuff - but that seems to be clearly the next step in the game)

[TECSHARE]

They are already doing this in the USA, just less publicly. I would imagine it would be globally as well not just for the domestic serfs. It is called a "threat rating" here, and is based on a trade secret formula which no one but the company who made the software knows how it works. Pleasant thought.

Here is an article about it being used in a locality:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/the-new-way-police-are-surveilling-you-calculating-your-threat-score/2016/01/10/e42bccac-8e15-11e5-baf4-bdf37355da0c_story.html


If that wasn't enough, now Obama is giving local police access to NSA databases:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1406813.0

LET THE BLACKMAIL BEGIN!

[Slowturtleinc]

The more data they can get on individuals the more they can control them. Think this is why porn has become so available on the internet,they can see what kinky things people are into all the well building a folder to hit you with.

Problem we have is a machine chugging along that thinks there is nothing wrong to get information on people to protect the masses from being hurt by potential people. Just wait till they get us with pre-crime and fill those prison beds with woulda and coulda convicts.

[Fortify]

China already has a lot of the surveillance infrastructure in position and have built in the servitude to government philosophy across a few generations now. They have the perfect ecosystem and are in a rush to advance the tracking software to watch the internet. China is already pushing into a self contained internet, any domains that do not meet Chinese standards are blocked by default now. Other systems aren't perfect but crushing dissenting opinions, island building and not allowing proper voting will only create a bigger bang in the end.