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Margaret Anna Alice's avatar

Big Brother is double-plus good!

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Richard Seager's avatar

I didn't have any issues visiting China in 2019. I saw no sign of social credit but then again I wasn't looking for it either. Might grill the Chinese student staying with us again.

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baboon's avatar

Arrgh! Dagnammit! ;)

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Maria Romana's avatar

"Alex Jones was Right" jar ... 😏😏😏

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baboon's avatar

Top kek on that meme.

"it’ll actually be boring"

Yes, I suspect not being allowed more than 15 minutes from your house from cradle to grave is going to suck. Fortunately, there's a (Meta) app for that! Take the blue pill!

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Data Humanist's avatar

In regard to China' Social Credit score, if you are an American citizen you should know that your FICO score largely serves the same purpose. What else? Since 2017 or so, if you landed in Shenzhen or Guangdong (and now, presumably also Shanghai, Beijing, etc), you -- ALL international travelers -- needed to submit to digital fingerprinting and face and passport scan to start the entry process into Customs and Immigration. Scary, right? A violation, right? USA Disney at least since 2010 has used biometrics and required a thumb print of anyone entering the park (compound). This focus on China can ignore what has been happening in the USA. Been happening for now two decades. You are tracked, tagged and rated. Using biometrics and a credit score. Period. If you've applied for a job in the USA recently, take a look at all the rights you sign away during the application process. China-bashing is a distraction.

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π™‚π™Šπ™Šπ˜Ώ π˜Ύπ™„π™π™„π™•π™€π™‰'s avatar

Good points. With global entry they've also been selling convenience to extract fingerprints and biometric data from us citizens. They purposely keep customs lines long so people will opt for global entry in the fast lane

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Data Humanist's avatar

Let me add, a deserved bashing. But still a way of blinding people from what has been happening in their presumed Western democracies.

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Paris Green's avatar

Fascinating. The radio announces that this Christmas WILL BE really β€œdifficult” and that families WILL slide increasingly into poverty … wait for it, wait for it… β€œbecause of the pandemic”.

I have never known the news to be so …. β€œprophetic”. Ever since spring 2020, they have stopped telling us what HAS happened and have been telling us what WILL happen.

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Data Humanist's avatar

Good observation. "Here is the rhetoric that we will make reality. Get with the program, good citizen(s)".

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