GarbageShoot comments on Is Lemmy.World racist towards China?

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[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Social credit scores, in so far as they aren't just a fabrication, are a way of policing businesses to keep them from doing anti-social practices. Private citizens don't have any kind of "state loyalty score," just a normal criminal record (or lack of one, of course)

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[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Got it, and considering every American believes themselves to be some temporarily embarrassed millionaire, they extrapolate that to mean ME, they want ME to have a social credit score!

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[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

It's not even that, they have no idea about it being for businesses. They just imagine the 1984 stasi assigning every individual citizen a numeric value that represents how the government judges them and then rewarding or penalizing them accordingly. It's seriously just a myth that people believe because "some guy said so" is all they need to believe something bad about China.

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