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  • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    Social credit scores, in so far as they aren’t just a fabrication, are a way of policing businesses to keep them from doing anti-social practices. Private citizens don’t have any kind of “state loyalty score,” just a normal criminal record (or lack of one, of course)

    • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      7 months ago

      Got it, and considering every American believes themselves to be some temporarily embarrassed millionaire, they extrapolate that to mean ME, they want ME to have a social credit score!

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        7 months ago

        It’s not even that, they have no idea about it being for businesses. They just imagine the 1984 stasi assigning every individual citizen a numeric value that represents how the government judges them and then rewarding or penalizing them accordingly. It’s seriously just a myth that people believe because “some guy said so” is all they need to believe something bad about China.