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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: 3, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Tuesday March 20 2018, @06:55PM
Keeping "trouble-makers" off planes and trains sounds "good", but who defines "trouble-maker"?
Well, for airplanes, I'd say whenever there's incidents where people scream at flight attendants, get drunk and disorderly, kids kick peoples' seats, people get into fights, etc., that these constitute "trouble-makers". Do you disagree?
There's no real "smoking" issue in the USA anymore.
Yes, there is. It's not *that* common, but people still do sneak cigarettes into the lavatories in airplanes and smoke there, even though it's against federal law. I don't see why anyone caught doing this should ever be allowed to fly again. Felons are commonly punished in strong ways, by removing many of their rights, and this is no different.
Personally, I would call it an invasion of privacy and would be too easily abused to have such a database of "trouble-makers".
How is it an "invasion of privacy" to have a database of criminals? You do realize that it's criminal behavior to smoke on an airplane, don't you? And that it's criminal behavior to disobey flight attendants? Are you saying that criminals should have some expectation of privacy, and that their criminal records should be kept secret, especially when their crimes jeopardize safety in-flight? You really think airlines shouldn't be able to refuse service to these people?
I'm also guessing pretty much every convicted felon would get on this list as well. Even for a person who is regularly a pain to deal with, it's not a path we should go down.
So people who have *proven* themselves to be a real problem and danger in a thin aluminum cylinder hurtling through the air at close to the speed of sound should somehow be allowed to continue to be a disruption?