Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill

JustTheWind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• plyth@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There has been a widespread misconception that China operates a nationwide and unitary social credit “score” based on individuals’ behavior, leading to punishments if the score is too low. Media reports in the West have sometimes exaggerated or inaccurately described this concept.[4][5][6] In 2019, the central government voiced dissatisfaction with pilot cities experimenting with social credit scores. It issued guidelines clarifying that citizens could not be punished for having low scores and that punishments should only be limited to legally defined crimes and civil infractions. As a result, pilot cities either discontinued their point-based systems or restricted them to voluntary participation with no major consequences for having low scores.

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System

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  • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is, if true and accurate, delightful news! And has improved an otherwise troublesome day.

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  • Bubbey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    As an American, it always made me laugh when we made fun of China’s “Social Credit Score” when we literally have one already that determines whether we can buy houses/cars/etc lol

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  • Limonene@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What about all the people blocked from air travel due to low Social Credit? Are you saying that never happened?

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    • yogurt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      People can be banned from airlines but they get banned for the same reasons they do in the US, like getting drunk on the plane and punching someone. Or like how the US bans people who owe child support from getting a passport, judges in China are allowed to ban people with unpaid child support or big enough unpaid fines from state owned airlines until they pay.

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