China has introduced a universal credit score, which everyone is measured in number between 350 and 950. But the credit score is not only affected by the way you handle credit - it also reflects how your political opinions are consistent with official Chinese view, and if your friends "are too.
in the West, the monitoring agencies have tried to be as unobtrusive as possible while listening to everything and anything. China has adopted a different approach. Not only the very open surveillance, you are also constantly nudged to fall in line.
The Chinese credit score, which seemed innocent at first, was introduced this summer. Specifically, it was introduced by Alibaba and Tencent, China's IT giants who run the Chinese equivalents of all social networks, and that therefore all and any data. People can download an application called "Sesame Credit" from the Alibaba network, the score became something of a bragging contest, be interpreted as a kind of "citizenship status" - and not entirely false. Nearly 100,000 people have displayed their "status" online Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter.
In the West, our credit score is simple. It is our ability to pay. It is measured from our assets, income, and if we bought on credit in the past and successful. That's all. In China, the situation is ... more qualified . It is not enough that you have bought things, it is also this you buy that contribute to your credit score, in both directions. If you buy things that the regime enjoys, such as dishwasher and baby supplies, your credit score increases. If you buy video games, your score takes a negative stroke.
In theory, Credit Sesame (and its benefits) is optional. Until there. For the time being. But China has already announced that, or something very similar, will become mandatory from 2020. It also announced that, if there are benefits to the obedient people today, it intends to add various penalties for people who do not behave as limited Internet connectivity. These people will also be banned from serving in certain high-status positions and influential, as government official, journalist, CEO, statistician, and the like.
The things that make your score deteriorate include displaying political views without prior permission, talk or describe a different story from the official one, or even the precise publishing new updates to the collapse Shanghai the stock market (which was and is embarrassing for the Chinese regime).
But the kicker is that if one of your friends do - publish opinions without prior authorization, or to report accurate news, but embarrassing - your score will be as deteriorate. And this will have a direct impact on your quality of life.
"Sesame credit, however, also uses other data to calculate scores, such as a person's hobby, interacting with friends, shopping habits and lifestyle. "- China Daily Quote Asia
KGB and Stasi method of preventing dissent to take the hand was to plant so-called agent provocateurs in the general population, people who have tried to make people agree with the dissent, but who were actually after their arrest as they agreed with such dissent. by therefore, no one would agree that the government has done something wrong, and it was very effective to prevent widespread resistance to take control. the Chinese way is more subtle here, but probably more effective . yet
this regime is much more sinister than it appears at first, as you also get immediate assorted privileges based on the credit score.
If your credit score reaches 0 , you have the privilege of an instant loan of about $ 800 without warranty when buying online
to twenty 650 , you can rent a car without a deposit.
a 700 , you have access to a bureaucratic fast track to a license to travel Singapore.
And 750 , you get a similar fast track to a coveted visa pan-European Schengen
There are many other examples - .. these are only for illustrate
everyone can check pointing Chinese person today using the credit service credit in China, that helps - no, wizz - people to disconnect from your friends and acquaintances that significantly pull your own credit score by simple association: they are listed as such. 869 582 all of them. Although that China's credit rating was purely tax at present (but your friends' score still affect your own score), the general idea is to expand this "social credit score" at the latest in 2020 , in accordance with official guidelines.
you see what is happening here? it means that people have to choose between these coveted European holiday and stay in touch with their old friends who disagree with the opinions of the regime openly. this means that keeping in touch with the dissidents will cause you and your family to lose the benefits. as a result, it will very effectively isolate and neutral anyone unofficial messages of political or unofficial history facts. They will actually be sent to social exile, based on everything they do, write, think, and talk online.
what China is doing here is selectively the breeding population to select against the critical stroke, independent thinking. This may not be the goal, in fact, I doubt that's the main goal, but it is nevertheless the effect of giving people only obedient social ability to have children, including children with success.
people sometimes laugh at the idea that we are not in a 1984 level yet. I wonder what he will really do for these people realize that the monitoring point 1984 has long come and gone.
Privacy remains your own responsibility.
H / t Kit (in Swedish)
UPDATE :. Here is a link to the official directive (English) Chinese to build this "social credit score" in 2020. As commented Hacker News, this credit sesame seems to be a trial for the official requirement. Link added online at text above as well.
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