| Tango01 | 30 Nov 2016 9:24 p.m. PST |
"Swiping her son's half-fare student card through the turnstile here one Monday afternoon, Chen Li earned herself a $6 USD fine and a reprimand from a subway-station inspector for not paying the adult fare. A notice on a post nearby suggested more-dire consequences. It warned that infractors could be docked points in the city's "personal credit information system." A decline in Ms. Chen's credit score, according to official pronouncements, could affect her daily life, including securing loans, jobs and her son's school admission. "I'm sure if it comes up, I can explain," Ms. Chen said, saying she picked up the card accidentally. "It was unintentional." Hangzhou's local government is piloting a "social credit" system the Communist Party has said it wants to roll out nationwide by 2020, a digital reboot of the methods of social control the regime uses to avert threats to its legitimacy…"
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| Howler | 30 Nov 2016 9:53 p.m. PST |
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| Mardaddy | 30 Nov 2016 10:35 p.m. PST |
Yep. Read about this. Black Mirror come to life. Not a far next step to attach "proper ideology" to the matrix. |
Dn Jackson  | 30 Nov 2016 11:12 p.m. PST |
Who was it who said the natural inclination of government is to accrue more power? |
| Cyrus the Great | 30 Nov 2016 11:13 p.m. PST |
No, it will be Fake News stories written by talented high school and university students from Veles Macedonia for a gullible public. |
| Chris Vermont | 01 Dec 2016 2:49 a.m. PST |
Holy jumping Jesus! Filial piety? How does one even judge that? However, if you want to see a capitalist version of this, more in line with American cultural values, read Super Sad True Love Story, the scariest dystopian novel I have read in years. link |
| Mako11 | 01 Dec 2016 3:05 a.m. PST |
Hmmm, sounds like some of the stuff here, e.g. having drivers licenses and other business licenses pulled for mere allegations of people being behind on child support (note – not convicted, just accused); metro passes for cars going across bridges or using toll roads, local and state governments wanting to tax people for each mile driven on roads; government video cameras on every street corner, and even microphones secretly hidden around cities, not to mention their access to private ones; NSA vacuuming up virtually all e-mail and phone conversations; black boxes in cars to record your driving speeds in case of accidents; cell phone positional tracking; etc., etc.. We're way beyond "big brother" already. |
| wminsing | 01 Dec 2016 8:10 a.m. PST |
Fascinating and terrifying stuff. -Will |
 Dentatus   | 01 Dec 2016 8:14 a.m. PST |
"Black Mirror" is right. Wow. Just… wow. I gotta incorporate this into a book somehow. |
| Mako11 | 01 Dec 2016 2:25 p.m. PST |
Almost forgot those nice, convenient, 24/7/365 vehicle tracking services installed in many new vehicles now. |
 Condotta | 01 Dec 2016 2:36 p.m. PST |
Tracking is useful. If I forget where I am, my phone can locate me for me, or my car, or my home, or the local pub, or…. |
| Bunkermeister | 01 Dec 2016 3:00 p.m. PST |
Big Brother Loves You. Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog |
| JMcCarroll | 01 Dec 2016 6:40 p.m. PST |
If the Chi Cons weren't doing it then, they are now! |
| Chris Vermont | 02 Dec 2016 7:31 a.m. PST |
Chi Cons? That would be Frank Yale and Al Capone? |
| Tango01 | 02 Dec 2016 10:38 a.m. PST |
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| capncarp | 05 Jan 2017 8:57 p.m. PST |
"I aim to misbehave."
Capt. Mal Reynolds, somewhere in the Black, 2517 C.E. |
