Is American modeling China's social score system?
Is America already in a social credit system without calling it by its name? “If you want to participate in our society fully, you’ve got to get vaccinated” — NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, August 3, 2021 China's 'social credit' system ranks citizens and punishes them with throttled internet speeds and flight bans if the Communist Party deems them untrustworthy. What happens if you're blacklisted? The blacklisted are named on a List of Dishonest Persons Subject to Enforcement by the Supreme People's Court as "not qualified" to buy a plane ticket, and banned from travelling some train lines, buying property, or taking out a loan. There was no file, no police warrant, no official advance notification. They just cut you off from the things once entitled to and there is nothing you can do about it. In China there is no such thing as the rule of law. Regulations that can be largely apolitical on the surface can be political when the Communist Party of China (...