It is 7.30 o'clock. The alarm clock rings and you wake up. You get dressed, brush your teeth, have your breakfast and leave home. At 8.10 you take a bus to the work and after 45 minutes you arrive to your workplace. You clock in, smile at the reception and begin your casual day at work.
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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- a journal entry written by a professor who is considered an expert.
- a report written by an independent government source.
- a document published by a renowned organization.
- a scientific paper put out by a non-profit organization.
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The use of decasyllabic meter
Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet during the Middle Ages, best known for his work The Canterbury Tales. He is known as the "Father of English literature" and was the first writer to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey.
Chaucer is also well-known for his metrical innovation. He was one of the first English poets to use the five-stress line, which is a decasyllabic cousin to the iambic pentameter that became popular during the Elizabethan period.
