610
BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace (gizmodo.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
190 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

In unrelated news, Chinese social credit is a deeply misunderstood topic in western culture. It apparently does more to prevent corruption than it does to aid corruption, according to one independent reporter found via my YouTube algorithm. https://youtu.be/iXrx9ryVaes

I’m starting the get the feeling that feeling strongly about almost anything is a pretty strong indicator that I’ve been propagandized. How do we live like this?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Interesting. I read an article about it.

    https://www.tomorrow.city/social-credit-systems/

    I mean to me this reeks of some pretty extreme fascism. Without a genuine mechanism to challenge the system and considering how the government can and will place you on a black list for not towing the party line it is about as dystopian as you get.

    Fascism up in your daily business claiming to produce better metrics according to them is not something I could agree to.

    I already hate the existing US credit scoring system and the numerous catch 22's it has. While bringing this system under the regulation of government and allowing redressability sounds promising, I don't think this is really what China is providing.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    Those claims are put under scrutiny in the video I linked. I’ll have to read the article though, as I’m going off your comment.

    It claims you can’t get blacklisted for not towing the party line. You can get blacklisted for not paying fines that you owe. To me, it sounds equivalent to being refused plane fair if you’ve got an unpaid traffic violation from a year ago.

    The video even calls out a case where an MMA fighter was blacklisted after participating in Hong Kong protests. But claims the story is misrepresented, and the fighter was actually blacklisted for failure pay $60k after being found liable for defamation against another MMA fighter in a civil suit.

    Edit: To be completely frank, I watched that video and thought to myself: such a system probably restricts the actions of the rich a lot more than it does your average Joe. Not sure if I’d mind it, really… Imagine if Alex Jones couldn’t get on a plane right now, given he hasn’t paid the victims of his slander yet?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •