re: Digital equity anyone? The framework has been set in motion.

How China Is Using “Social Credit Scores” to Reward and Punish Its Citizens

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This overlapping mishmash of commercial and state-run systems has stoked fears that China’s autocratic Communist Party is planning by 2020 to implement a single citizen score using opaque algorithms that’s largely political. In a speech Oct. 4, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence described it as “an Orwellian system premised on controlling virtually every facet of human life.” In fact, China’s social-credit scoring is best understood not as a single system but as an overarching ideology: encompassing punishments and rewards, to improve governance and stamp out disorder and fraud. Commercial schemes mostly handle the perks, state schemes the punishments. Both work in concert to encourage socially responsible behavior.

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But they are undeniably intrusive. Government agencies compile and share data on judgments against individuals or companies. Fail to pay a fine or court-ordered compensation, or default on your debts, and you will be put on the “List of Untrustworthy Persons.” Blacklisted individuals cannot make “luxury purchases,” such as high-speed rail and air tickets or hotel rooms. Five million people have been barred from high-speed trains and 17 million from flights under the scheme, according to the official website. “The ripple effect on every part of your life becomes a multiplier on punishments,” says professor Frank Pasquale, a Big Data expert at the University of Maryland.

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And some elements are indeed worthy of dystopian fiction. In certain areas of China, call a blacklisted person on the phone and you will hear a siren and recorded message saying: “Warning, this person is on the blacklist. Be careful and urge them to repay their debts.” When a blacklisted person crosses certain intersections in Beijing, facial-recognition technology projects their face and ID number on massive electronic billboards. Beijing-based lawyer Li Xiaolin was blacklisted after a court apology he gave was deemed “insincere.” Unable to buy tickets, he was stranded 1,200 miles from home. “It was ridiculous,” he says.

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Although it sounds draconian, the repercussions of blacklisting “tend to be coercive rather than punitive,” China legal scholar Jeremy Daum says. Once you’ve complied with the court ruling, you’re theoretically scrubbed from the blacklist (although many report that this is easier said than done).

Essentially, the system utilizes technology to enforce existing legal prohibitions through shame and hardship rather than by adding a new layer of arbitrary regulation. Despite being blacklisted himself, Li is in favor of the system overall. “It’s good for society,” he says. The fear, however, is that it will also be good for a Chinese government eager to quash free speech and root out dissenters.

Under the state systems, “spreading rumors” is disproportionately penalized. In one region, neighborhoods have dedicated watchers to record deeds and misdeeds. As the state continues to persecute religious minorities like the Uighurs and silence outspoken academics, the worry is what metrics the social-credit systems may extend to next. Still, for now people like Yi are happy to relish the newfound order that a social-credit score can bring—as well as enjoy the perks. “At first I worried about all my information being exposed,” says Yi, sipping free Starbucks coffee courtesy of Sesame’s loyalty points. “But then I thought, I’m just a normal kid, a regular person. What harm could there be?”

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Some of you are paranoid and taking something real and unlikeable and making out to be some kind of planned out conspiracy. Democrats are too big of a mess to pull anything like this off. Heck they couldn't even get their guy elected in Virginia, are going to get only half of what they want in the next bill and now you think they are going to run on this?

Scores for being democrat or republican? Please, everyone will register democrat for the plus points but vote democrat. People can say they are gay for the points and then go on live a straight life.

And you actually think the Supereme Court will say its okay?

Go get some sleep and relax. Just win the next two elections and everything will be the way you want it.

Read this for a calm down bed time story - They are not turning us into China while this is happening -
LINK

Equity is out of balance with the natural world.

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(I'm at -60 and have not a frick to give)

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Likewise. There’s probably some age parameters as well.
Unborn -10
Over 65 -10