Be aware that China doesn't have a national police check or a credit check system either private or public.<p>Imagine trying to rent a house or get a loan without a credit check or police check.<p>The social credit system is basically a police check and a credit check combined. A bunch of other groups and companies are trying to add extra things to it (smoking on the bullet trains) basically the same as public interest groups in every county. Some will probably succeed but 80 to 90% of it just a combination of:<p><pre><code> 1. A Credit Check
2. A police Check
3. A no-fly list
</code></pre>
If this is Orwellian then every western country is already miles ahead of them.
The problem with this is a shifting of the "Overton window": it's not quite as bad as it could possibly be, so it's fine.<p>We should be careful not to let the frog boil.
Peter Thiel said it in 0 to 1: China is one of those countries where it looks scary powerful from a foreigner’s perspective, but on the inside, people are panicking and really have no idea what they are doing most of the time. There’s this illusion of efficiency and order whereas the reality is inside China it is just as chaotic as any other country.
Flagged for completely misleading title. s/isn't real/isn't fully implemented yet, but on the right course the 2020 and let us describe all the existing elements/<p>I expected better from an FP article.
Not now; chinese great e-wall is also started from a humble beginnings.<p>You start with ... we do not care ... then ...<p>There is no debate here. Any non-democratic society or even democratic one with no effective oversight ... or even with effective oversight shall not classify its citizen like this.