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China’s new “social credit score” program

Two and a half year later, people are still missing the big picture of this program, according to PrivateInternetAcess VPN. China is introducing a new universal citizen rating, which is called “Social Credit Score”. It is supposed to look like a credit score, but is anything but. It is affected by a much broader range of activities than merely paying your bills on time — in general terms, it mirrors how good a citizen you are, where “good” means “obedient”. If you do things that the government doesn’t like, your score goes down. Or if you hang around too much with friends who do bad things, according to the government. And the system tells you this. This is the killer […]