Seriously who could have guessed? Sure it might not amount to much but even the fact that people are learning that what the US has been teaching it's people about China has been mostly lies is amazing.
There is no way in hell this could have ever happened even when I was a kid. People were simply too racist. They still are, but the fact that even the slight reduction in racism we have in modern day is enough that Chinese people and Westerners are coming together and being cool with each other online is nothing short of a miracle.
No wonder the US hegemony hates teaching it's people foreign languages, no wonder it encourages xenophobia, that barrier was so powerful in keeping people from learning first hand what Americas "enemies" are really like.
A lot of the perception of ‘social credit’ is very muddied and unspecific. If I’m being completely honest, I see it as a relative nonissue for China to have a scan of my face (which really is available to anyone and anything so long as there exists even a single picture of you online)
Like, exactly what is China going to do with it? For those who live in America, the American Gov’t will be the ones attempting to surveil and control you. China doesn’t exactly pose a threat to me as a person lol.
“I’ve done nothing wrong I’ve got nothing to hide”
I don’t want any country having a scan of my face. I’m livid they likely have my drivers license but at least that’s just one static image and not endless photos and videos. I just don’t want that level of data out there about me with the rise of AI and the eventual introduction of social credit in the US. And who knows what the future brings
there's difference in actually scanning your face and scanning faces of people appeared in a video available to public (let's be real here, they are all already scanned by all the AI companies in the US too). There's some controversial discord age verification bot through 3rd party service thing and roblox age verification that actually requires you to scan your face, that's ones that I will never submit my photo to. As long as these chinese apps do not require you to do the same, I don't see any problem with that.