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Taking a Hint from Silicon Valley, China to Judge Citizens with Social Credit Scores by 2020
Styxhexenhammer666 ^ | Nov 24, 2018 | Styx

Posted on 11/24/2018 9:49:45 AM PST by snarkpup

US corporations already do: https://twitter.com/tictoc/status/1065409779626098689

(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alttech; censorship; facebook; google; socialmedia; twitter
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Summary: Feel sorry for the people in China who will be subjected to this; but this is already what big social media and surveillance capitalists in the U.S. are already pushing for as hard as they can. This kind of centralization is necessary for the development of further levels of tyranny.
1 posted on 11/24/2018 9:49:45 AM PST by snarkpup
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To: snarkpup

At least we have a choice in the West - no one is forced to participate in the lunacy of social media.


2 posted on 11/24/2018 9:53:24 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Not participating with social media will label you an outcast and trigger psychological evaluations.


3 posted on 11/24/2018 9:54:25 AM PST by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

“At least we have a choice in the West - no one is forced to participate in the lunacy of social media.”

Yet.


4 posted on 11/24/2018 9:57:06 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
These companies (including zillions of small surveillance capitalists) are lurking under the hood of most modern websites. (For a list of some of them, install uBlock Origin or some similar browser extension and look at what it's blocking.) Email sent from point A to point B may go through Google servers on the way. This is more than social media. You would have to stay off the internet, go totally cashless, etc. to avoid this stuff.
5 posted on 11/24/2018 9:58:44 AM PST by snarkpup
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To: snarkpup

Correction: go cash only.


6 posted on 11/24/2018 10:01:06 AM PST by snarkpup
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To: AnotherUnixGeek; willyd

not participating in social media means you will increasingly not be able to participate in normal civil society

How will you live in society when cash no longer exists and all payments will go through approved oligarch tech firms like Google or Apple? How will you work when employers won’t recognize someone who can’t submit their life details and CV via Facebook or Linkdin? How will your children be allowed to go to the mandatory state schools without an on-line profile?


7 posted on 11/24/2018 10:03:03 AM PST by PGR88
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Zuckerberg started a similar “trustworthy” index for every Facebook user.

That score remains a secret from them.


8 posted on 11/24/2018 10:03:45 AM PST by gaijin
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

We have chosen to keep our FasTrak transponders in anti-stat bags to prevent our movements being monitored beyond any toll crossing for which they are needed. It’s no big deal to pull them out of the console and throw them upon the dash when we have to cross a toll bridge. Our son says he doesn’t ever use his and because they use license plate readers at toll locations, he claims they aren’t really necessary. And although it’s against the law, we don’t run front license plates on any of our cars. We’ve done that for years and never had a problem with the cops for so doing.


9 posted on 11/24/2018 10:04:09 AM PST by vette6387
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“How will you live in society when cash no longer exists and all payments will go through approved oligarch tech firms like Google or Apple? How will you work when employers won’t recognize someone who can’t submit their life details and CV via Facebook or Linkdin? “

Well, I’m 78 years old so it’s not going to affect me.


10 posted on 11/24/2018 10:05:41 AM PST by vette6387
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To: snarkpup

The sci fi TV show “The Oroville” did an episode like this. The encountered an alien planet/ society where everyone was judged by the collective will - on everything. It was a commentary on today, taken to an absurd extreme, but maybe not as much as we’d think...


11 posted on 11/24/2018 10:08:29 AM PST by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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“At least we have a choice in the West - no one is forced to participate in the lunacy of social media.”

Dont be too sure.

With the tech cartel engaging in deplatforming for wrong-think, they have already instituted a light version of this.

Once they hook this into actual banks, HR departments, and the airlines, then we are really going to know the “price of tea in China”.


12 posted on 11/24/2018 10:11:49 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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Some insurance companies (car, health) offer discounts if you agree to constant surveillance with appropriate devices. How long until this becomes manditory?
13 posted on 11/24/2018 10:12:01 AM PST by snarkpup
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not participating in social media means you will increasingly not be able to participate in normal civil society

This is correct, regardless of what geriatric FReepers who yell at clouds try to say.

14 posted on 11/24/2018 10:15:11 AM PST by Drew68 (Twitter @TheRealDrew68 // Click my profile page for great Russian pop music videos.)
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With the tech cartel engaging in deplatforming for wrong-think, they have already instituted a light version of this.

Yep. Just wait until you can't use PayPal because FaceBook suspended your account after the SPLC flagged a "hateful" comment you made about transgender people 6 months ago.

15 posted on 11/24/2018 10:18:49 AM PST by Drew68 (Twitter @TheRealDrew68 // Click my profile page for great Russian pop music videos.)
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To: vette6387

Lol


16 posted on 11/24/2018 10:32:23 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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“We have chosen to keep our FasTrak transponders in anti-stat bags to prevent our movements being monitored beyond any toll crossing for which they are needed. “

Ever test the ant-stat bag by leaving the FasTrack in it when you place it on the dash at as you roll thru a toll gate.? If it works your Fastrak account shouldn't be debited normally but they will correlate your car to you via a plate reader. and you will get debited and you should see how they did it proving the bag actually works or not.

The reason I say this is because in some areas (NYC) the transponders are used for more than ease of toll payment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=25&v=JCwWVxGtYgE

https://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-21/dc-21-presentations/Pukingmonkey/DEFCON-21-Pukingmonkey-The-Road-Less-Surreptitiously-Traveled-Updated.pdf

17 posted on 11/24/2018 11:26:58 AM PST by Polynikes ( Hakkaa palle)
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The British series “Black Mirror” shows episodes like that and is quite good and sold on Amazon but curiously is in the PAL format and set for Region 2 in effect blocking it in the US.


18 posted on 11/24/2018 11:34:52 AM PST by Polynikes ( Hakkaa palle)
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Amending the last statement. It apparently can be watched on a PC ok and only some series are Reg 2 available.


19 posted on 11/24/2018 11:40:11 AM PST by Polynikes ( Hakkaa palle)
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To: willyd

“ label you an outcast and trigger psychological evaluations. “

And for those of us who are already viewed as outcasts and hopeless old curmudgeons, hopefully our status will not suffer too much.


20 posted on 11/24/2018 11:41:03 AM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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