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China said it will begin applying its so-called social credit system to flights and trains and stop people who have committed misdeeds from taking such transport for up to a year.
People who would be put on the restricted lists included those found to have committed acts like spreading false information about terrorism and causing trouble on flights, as well as those who used expired tickets or smoked on trains, according to two statements issued on the National Development and Reform Commission’s website on Friday.
[...] China has flagged plans to roll out a system that will allow government bodies to share information on its citizens’ trustworthiness and issue penalties based on a so-called social credit score.
China to bar people with bad 'social credit' from planes, trains
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by black6host on Tuesday March 20 2018, @03:14AM (5 children)
I think with all the things coming to light these days in the US that we could potentially face a similar future. The infrastructure is being laid. Has been for quite some time. I bet we see some really "creative" ideas on what to do with all the data being collected these days. "Hoover it up now, boys. We'll find a use for it later..."
(Score: 5, Insightful) by AndyTheAbsurd on Tuesday March 20 2018, @12:58PM (3 children)
I don't see how it's so different from the US's No Fly List, except that it applies to trains as well as planes.
So what I'm saying is, we're already there in the US.
Please note my username before responding. You may have been trolled.
(Score: 2) by ilsa on Tuesday March 20 2018, @03:47PM
Assuming that the social contract data is accurately maintained, then it's actually better than the No Fly list. The NFL is so absurdly arbitrary, that you can end up on the list for nothing more than having a name similar to a name "they" don't like.
Course, the whole thing is completely ironic, considering how corrupt the gov't is.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @08:01PM (1 child)
The No Fly List is nominally people who are a danger to the act of flying planes (e.g. they are liable to take the people there hostage, or fly the plane into a building). It's rife with abuse, mistakes, and other such negative things to the point that I personally think it should be abandoned, but nominally it makes sense. "If we let Bob onto the plane, he'll cause death and destruction, so we won't let him onto a plane."
This is a "if you badmouth the government, or we just 'don't like you,' you won't be allowed to travel." It is clearly a coercive system trying to get everybody to toe the line and fall in order.
I think the difference is pretty clear myself, but that's just me.
(Score: 2) by dry on Wednesday March 21 2018, @01:51AM
Wouldn't it be simpler just to check Bob's luggage and such really close, or is he going to rip out a window or such?
(Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Tuesday March 20 2018, @05:47PM
> The infrastructure is being laid.
Yep, that's the other thing that people with "Bad Social Credit" also get banned from.