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[โ€“] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

-10000000 social credit score

[โ€“] jfrnz@lemm.ee 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

There has been a widespread misconception that China operates a nationwide and unitary social credit "score" based on individuals' behavior, leading to punishments if the score is too low. Media reports in the West have sometimes exaggerated or inaccurately described this concept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System

[โ€“] ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Media reports in the West have sometimes exaggerated or inaccurately described this concept.

But the concept exists, nonetheless.

The idea that the tech and surveillance obsessed Chinese government isn't keeping tags on its citizens, to at least the same degree western countries are keeping tags on theirs is patently absurd, and all you're doing by pretending otherwise is licking the left boot instead of the right,.

[โ€“] jfrnz@lemm.ee 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I would never claim that China is performing less surveillance of its citizens. They definitely are a world leader in this, in a very bad way.

However, mindless commenters spamming social credit demerits on any post that mentions China only serve to feed the exaggerations and inaccuracies.

[โ€“] spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 points 7 hours ago

This is a really good comment I wish I could pin it somewhere where more people would see it.