First, at the very least, as confirmed by two interviewees in the video provided by Gregory Green (GG) as well as a detailed wikipedia report, with citations, on the social credit system, restricting citizens travel--point blank refusing to sell them a train or plane ticket as punishment for failing to pay a bill--is an act of totalitarianism. Pure and simple.
Second, per GG there is at least one city (Rongcheng) that does have a social credit system whereby people are punished for bad behavior (article states, "untrustworthy"). Whether or not punishments are actually carried out consistently or not is irrelevant. It's totalitarian. Pure and simple.
I do think that GG wrote a very thoughtful and well written article and it was worth taking the time to read it.
First, at the very least, as confirmed by two interviewees in the video provided by Gregory Green (GG) as well as a detailed wikipedia report, with citations, on the social credit system, restricting citizens travel--point blank refusing to sell them a train or plane ticket as punishment for failing to pay a bill--is an act of totalitarianism. Pure and simple.
Second, per GG there is at least one city (Rongcheng) that does have a social credit system whereby people are punished for bad behavior (article states, "untrustworthy"). Whether or not punishments are actually carried out consistently or not is irrelevant. It's totalitarian. Pure and simple.
I do think that GG wrote a very thoughtful and well written article and it was worth taking the time to read it.
Really makes me wonder why he's so bent on convincing us that there is no social credit system. Even with content that seems to support that there is.