Posted on 11/18/2018 12:36:31 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Rachel Botsman, author of ‘Who Can You Trust?’ wrote...”People with low ratings will have slower internet speeds; restricted access to restaurants and the removal of the right to travel”
China’s attempting to make obedience ‘feel like’ gaming. It is a method of social control dressed up in some points-reward system. It’s ‘gamified’ obedience.
Once they get rid of cash and all of your capital is 1s and 0s on the IMF computer they can just zero out all your accounts if they decide they don’t need you anymore.
In a trendy neighbourhood in downtown Beijing, the BBC news services hit the streets in October 2015 to ask people about their Sesame Credit ratings.... Most spoke about the upsides. But then, who would publicly criticise the system? Ding, your score might go down.... Alarmingly, few people understood that a bad score could hurt them in the future. Even more concerning was how many people had no idea that they were being rated.
Interesting ......”In February 2017, the country’s Supreme People’s Court announced that 6.15 million of its citizens had been banned from taking flights over the past four years for social misdeeds. The ban is being pointed to as a step toward blacklisting in the SCS. “We have signed a memorandum… [with over] 44 government departments in order to limit ‘discredited’ people on multiple levels,” says Meng Xiang, head of the executive department of the Supreme Court. Another 1.65 million blacklisted people cannot take trains.”
Yes....
A few years ago I inquired how long would it take to incorporate all banking institutions in the world into one operational system up and running. I was told at that time... ONE week. You can bet it’s down to at least a 24 hour period now or less.
Facebook, meanwhile, is now capable of identifying you in pictures without seeing your face; it only needs your clothes, hair and body type to tag you in an image with 83% accuracy. Now that’s scary!
I agree Caww.
Yeah, there are forces in china for ‘good’ which we should rememner. I don’t think they’ve been successful though.
Thread from a twitterer I respect:
https://twitter.com/BaldingsWorld/status/1066499165952196608
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