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Millions of Chinese individuals and businesses have been labelled as untrustworthy on an official blacklist banning them from any number of activities, including accessing financial markets or traveling by air or train, as the use of the government’s social credit system accelerates.
[...] Over 3.59 million Chinese enterprises were added to the official creditworthiness blacklist last year, banning them from a series of activities, including bidding on projects, accessing security markets, taking part in land auctions and issuing corporate bonds, according to the 2018 annual report released by the National Public Credit Information Center.
[...] According to the report, the authorities collected over 14.21 million pieces of information on the “untrustworthy conduct” of individuals and businesses, including charges of swindling customers, failing to repay loans, illegal fund collection, false and misleading advertising, as well as uncivilized behavior such as taking reserved seats on trains or causing trouble in hospitals.
About 17.46 million “discredited” people were restricted from buying plane tickets and 5.47 million were restricted from purchasing high-speed train tickets, the report said.
I, for one, welcome our new, well-behaved party overlords.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Friday February 22 2019, @01:20PM (4 children)
There has been a few articles now on their social score system. But they are somehow light on one aspect of it. How do you improve your score if you are found unworthy? Is there some kind of system decay as in your bad behavior diminishes over time if you don't repeat offend?
So I guess that sort of fixes it or? But wouldn't you still then be marked down as someone that doesn't pay their debts in time? As noted in the article it seems that some people might be eternally locked in a bad score due to poverty.
Also how does the system interact with foreigners? Are we at the top or the bottom of the list when it comes to buying train tickets and such or are we some sort of special class. I guess it's the last, we are probably under more or less constant watch, after all even their AI should be able to pick out a white face among the millions of yellow once.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday February 22 2019, @01:59PM
Pretty much the same way you get off SSI and SNAP in the US - stop being you, do better, figure it out, most other people can do it you just need to try harder, or hurry up and die already - preferably out of sight, it's such a downer seeing or talking about "those people." /s
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(Score: 2) by driverless on Friday February 22 2019, @02:08PM (1 child)
by engaging in a public struggle session (pīdòu) in which the individual admits to their crimes and engages in prolonged self-criticism until they see the error of their ways and rehabilitate themselves, pledging eternal allegiance to Chairman Mao.
Hang on a sec...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @03:42PM
Public struggle session? Admits their crimes? Prolonged self criticism [jaynestars.com]? Who would do such a thing [cosmopolitan.com]?
You talk like it is the case that people will just indulge in self conflagration themselves in online posts and hand over all of the their wealth and assets to the chinese government based purely on accusations without even bothering to try to defend themselves in a court of law.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Friday February 22 2019, @09:45PM
No way! Who doesn't love a redemption story? I bet people would like them even more.