Someone stole this idea from Black Mirror.
The Left wants that so bad here, they must be having convulsions just thinking about it.
Global Socialism bump for later....
China is really going back to authoriatarianism now, my friend says.
Very different environment there for foreigners now, he says.
Only if humans do all the heavy lifting.
Otherwise, Moore's law says it gets twice as powerful and half as expensive every couple years.
Using wrong words is a good way to destroy the point you’re trying to make.
The word he should have used is “persuasion” not “power”. He could have cut the length of his article by 90% had he done so.
Churchill saw this coming:
“But if we fail, then the whole world will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.”
Governments tend toward totalitarianism, unless prevented from going that way. Give bureaucrats an opening, and they will find a way to gain complete control over you.
How long before using the “wrong” pronouns means 100 demerits? At 10,000 demerits you get no pension and are expelled from your home on to the street.
Do not underestimate them! If they could do it here, they would.
But that is the interesting thing about the "Social Credit Score". It is not particularly costly to monitor and impose. It is done digitally, automatically, with little cost to it.
One only need monitor that the system "works" as intended, and adjust the algorithms accordingly.
While riding a bullet train between Nanning and Lizhou this summer, I lightly brushed my fiance’s breast. Yes, on purpose.
Moments later, the message in both Mandarin and English on the train’s speakers mentioned “acting appropriately in public”.
It’s real. They watch EVERYTHING.
” power is persuading people to cooperate, force is making them obey.”
So the choice is cooperate with the leaders, or obey them?
I think I see the problem. Our founders also saw it.
China!
The scope of this surveillance IS broad and pervasive ....I’ve read and watched several videos about this. Without question a police state in every sense of the word..PLUS! Everything they say, do and go....where they eat, what they buy ‘counts’ for or against.