China’s pervasive “social credit” scheme is still in development, but already profoundly shaping public behavior – Boing Boing

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"The social credit schemes are presently a patchwork of public, private and public-private systems that use ongoing surveillance, state records, and snitch-lines to reward and punish Chinese people for behavior that the Chinese establishment frowns on, from indebtedness to beating up quack doctors to chasing pop stars through airports."

From "China’s pervasive “social credit” scheme is still in development, but already profoundly shaping public behavior – Boing Boing".

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