https://www.foxnews.com/world/china-...scoring-system
Have to give them credit, and admire how they've blended capitalism with totalitarianism. Sure they still arrest people and take them to re-education camps, especially in the western provinces, but how ingenious to just cut off their ability to get a loan or a job promotion rather than the very unsubtle and expensive old methods like midnight abductions and beatings.
with literally hundreds of millions of cameras coming online to track behavior they can now keep people in line with relatively little labor at all. they can leverage their secret police in ways that would make the East German Stasi look like amateurs.
There's lesson here for us too, the coming censorship born of corporate power as much as government in this country, but it is coming nonetheless.
But likely not with the sheer audacity and ambition of the Chinese plan.
Oh and hey, companies like Google, who refused to work on US weapons projects b/c of morality, are helping the Chinese repress a billion people. "Do no evil*", * unless you get paid a LOT and it's some other country you're repressing.
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