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China will Ban People with Poor ‘Social Credit’ from Planes and Trains

posted by mrpg on Tuesday March 20 2018, @03:03AM   
from the blockchain-based? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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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• Re:Sounds bad, but works Re:Sounds bad, but works (Score: 4, Interesting) by tftp on Tuesday March 20 2018, @04:52AM (1 child)

  by tftp (806) on Tuesday March 20 2018, @04:52AM (#655270) Homepage

  It hardly matters what people think. The only thing that matters is what rulers think. Lacking the old rigid class systems, they invent new ones, flexible but accurate. They need to know who is going to be taken to the bright new future (brightness may vary) and who will be left behind. They need to know who will be allowed to live in cities for the rich, useful people and who will be relocated to ghettos. Many futurists predicted this kind of social score. It has to exist as a permit to live in a given city, to own a car (several grades,) to apply for jobs, to buy and carry weapons, to create businesses. Smart people will have social lifts, stupid rich people might be sent down. We do not have that today - the boards of directors are filled by the old boys network; it takes personal choice to yield the chair to a young genius, instead of moving from one failure to another. Will this system be used for good? And what is "good?"

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• Re:Sounds bad, but works (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @07:28AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @07:28AM (#655290)

  The city and civilization as its extension serves to isolate and provide comfort to its participants away from the dangers of nature starting from the stress of gathering food to avoiding malaria spreading mosquitoes. The rulers are just managers who want to run this system, and I will argue that they are not particularly driven to harm the people as much as build and maintain this system. If you are not invested in the system as much as a certain critical number of people want you to be, then you are considered part of the very nature - a potentially dangerous animal - and animals don't get to participate in the society.

  And isn't that the definition of progress?

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