• usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I'm going to assume that's not true in the absense of any evidence.

    The most I could find on googling this source wise was some indication that the social credit system might incorporate laws against drunk driving as in drunk driving will lower social credit scores

    an explanation of social credit I found

    • Rojo27 [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      OMG, I can't believe they're targeting drunk drivers. Won't anyone think of these people who put others in danger driving in their hunks of metalrage-cry

    • flowernet [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      Westerners like to imagine they control people by not letting them travel after they misunderstood the unbelievably mundane "social credit" system that railroads weren't letting fare evaders buy new tickets until they had paid the fine the previous infractions.

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I think they also use it to incentivise giving blood, taking care of elderly relatives as well as a form of punishment for fraud, crypto bullshit and things like that

        • flowernet [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          another aspect of western misunderstanding was imagining multiple distinct systems as comprising a single totalitarian "social credit score". China has systems that work like normal credit scores and track fraud in business. The stuff about losing your travel privileges was all just about offenses directly against the railroads like smoking in non-smoking sections and fare evasion.

    • Flinch [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      "The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence!", I say, smugly, as I check my FICO score to see if I am allowed to purchase shelter yet