China's social credit system has been compared to Black Mirror, Big Brother and every other dystopian future sci-fi writers can think up. The reality is more complicated — and in some ways, worse.
The idea for social credit came about back in 2007, with projects announced by the government as an opt-in system in 2014. But there's a difference between the official government system and private, corporate versions, though the latter's scoring system that includes shopping habits and friendships is often conflated with the former.
Brits are well accustomed to credit checks: data brokers such as Experian trace the timely manner in which we pay our debts, giving us a score that's used by lenders and mortgage providers. We also have social-style scores, and anyone who has shopped online with eBay has a rating on shipping times and communication, while Uber drivers and passengers both rate each other; if your score falls too far, you're out of luck.
China's social credit system expands that idea to all aspects of life, judging citizens' behaviour and trustworthiness. Caught jaywalking, don't pay a court bill, play your music too loud on the train — you could lose certain rights, such as booking a flight or train ticket. "The idea itself is not a Chinese phenomenon," says Mareike Ohlberg, research associate at the Mercator Institute for China Studies. Nor is the use, and abuse, of aggregated data for analysis of behaviour. "But if [the Chinese system] does come together as envisioned, it would still be something very unique," she says. "It's both unique and part of a global trend."
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What comes to your mind when you hear the word "freedom"?
It comes to my mind the great Martin Luther King who fight against the white oppression and lead the black people on the protest of 1963 where he talked about his big phrase "I have a dream".
Do you have as much freedom as you want to in your life? Explain.
if you compare someone like me 200 years ago with the present, I would tell you, yes, i have enought freedom to do anything I want. but now on day, you cant tell you are free, because to go to the neighbor country you need a passport or things like that.
In what way can society take away your freedom? Think about how people lived a long time ago.
They can make us slaves. They can tell us whenever they want a war and we got to respect that decision. We got to give the teens away to a dumb war.
What are some examples of freedom?
The freedom is when ou realize you are tie to anything at all, that anything ties you down. That you can go to any country you want. That you can be free. But, we still have on mind that our freedom's border is the other one's.
