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Saturday, April 28, 2018

China Assigns Every Citizen A ‘Social Credit Score’

China is rolling out a high-tech plan to give all of its 1.4 billion citizens a personal score, based on how they behave.

But there are consequences if a score gets too low, and for some that’s cause for concern, CBS2’s Ben Tracy reported Tuesday.

When Liu Hu recently tried to book a flight, he was told he was banned from flying because he was on the list of untrustworthy people. Liu is a journalist who was ordered by a court to apologize for a series of tweets he wrote and was then told his apology was insincere.

“I can’t buy property. My child can’t go to a private school,” he said. “You feel you’re being controlled by the list all the time.”

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The lefties are trying to do this to us through the media and facebook

Anonymous said...

Communism duh! This is what communism and socialism is like. You get no control and no one is equal.

Anonymous said...

The communists control the criteria, obviously. Party members in good standing receive the highest scores.