China's Social Credit System - It's Coming to the United States....its already here! China’s Social Credit System – It’s Coming to the United States....its already here! https://internationalman.com/articles/chinas-social-credit-system-its-coming-to-the-united-states/ Excerpts: ....You can literally die a death by a thousand paper cuts. Buy the wrong thing on Alibaba too many times, and you can no longer even get a job. Hang out with the wrong friends too many times, and you can’t get a loan or trade in the stock market. And once you’re out of society, you’re out for good. There’s virtually no way to get back in. You’re muted and invisible. Persona non grata. It’s an appalling return to the caste system of India. If your credit score is too low, you’re untouchable. People will turn on each other. China’s elite State Council published a planning document on the SCS that says that the “new system will reward those who report acts of breach of trust.” That’s a page straight from Soviet Russia’s KGB – only more effective....... The Land of the Decree, and the Home of the Slave The majority of the elements are in place for the Social Credit System to be implemented. Not in China. In the United States. We have: •	The databases •	The digital surveillance •	The national credit score system •	The systems of reward and punishment •	The government-knows-best attitude •	The electronic purchasing data •	The ubiquitous social networks Think about it. China started with Alibaba and Tencent. In the United States, we have Amazon and Facebook and Google. They know everything you read, see, search, buy, and say. Your Android or iPhone already tracks your location and reports it hundreds of times per day. And that information is already being used for complete censorship. In 2018, Facebook began a program that assigns every user a reputation score, which predicts their “trustworthiness.” Sound familiar? Here is how China implemented the Social Credit Score system in just under five years: *They subjected all online behavior to intense study. *They collected, stored and analyzed all social media and banking information. *They began to severely regulate the freedom to travel. And here’s what’s going on in the United States… Police threat-scoring algorithms are used to determine who the police should be tracking and surveilling. Social media is already being used in these algorithms. For the past decade, the NSA has been gathering information on people’s social media, locations, friends, and who they travel with. The agency can enrich the data with bank information, social media information, voter information and even GPS location information. The TSA has a rapidly expanding “no-fly” list. The list has no government accountability, and there is no recourse – unless, of course, you’re a powerful government official who ends up on it. Indeed, a report from the World Privacy Forum indicates that in such a credit score system “error rates and false readings become a big issue.”.... Read more here: https://internationalman.com/articles/chinas-social-credit-system-its-coming-to-the-united-states/