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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: 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.