They Literally just steal videos from Chinese tiktok and put text(often in mandarin) over it and post it to make it look authentic.
Also 550 is their favourite number because they refer to it a lot when making Social Credit videos.
They Literally just steal videos from Chinese tiktok and put text(often in mandarin) over it and post it to make it look authentic.
Also 550 is their favourite number because they refer to it a lot when making Social Credit videos.
The difference is that social credit is localized to specific provinces or cities that opt into the program. And it’s mostly only utilized for businesses (to ensure they’re compliant with the law by actually providing the services advertised to consumers). The owners/executives are the ones whose lives are nominally affected by the score. That’s not to say that can’t expand the system to other areas that weren’t intended for it (see SSN in the US), but so far it’s not some 1984 shit. I’ve met some international Chinese liberals while in college, and sometimes American students would ask them about credit scores and they would have no idea what the hell you’re talking about lol
The cartoonish social credit dystopia fabrication has gotten so outlandish that western, liberal media outlets have had to write articles debunking the claims because the things they said had no basis in reality like any good lie
So it’s less dystopian than the American social credit system…. Of course
Every accusation an admission
What I hate is that some lefty podcasts still either espouse this social credit nonsense explicitly or some of their guests will do so without an ounce of pushback from the hosts. I think the most recent instance I heard was an episode from This Machine Kills which oozes radlib and sucdem vibes anyway