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: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @07:05AM
China was doing it more than a year before that episode aired: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34592186 [bbc.com]
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.cn%2Fzhengce%2Fcontent%2F2014-06%2F27%2Fcontent_8913.htm&edit-text=&act=url [google.com]