China is developing a new high-tech system of mass surveillance and coercion aimed suppressing political dissent among its 1.4 billion people, while forcing American and Western businesses to conform to the government’s communist policies if they want to operate there.
The system that critics call an Orwellian national-level control system has been dubbed the Social Credit System (SCS) and was set for launch in the coming year, although recent reports from China now say the rollout could be delayed until 2021.
The massive system has been tested in several major Chinese cities and uses millions of surveillance cameras linked to supercomputers containing massive databases. Face and voice recognition technology then identifies and monitors people with the goal of controlling behaviors that range from dissident political activity to jaywalking, ostensibly as part of a financial credit monitoring system similar to those used in the West.
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WNU Editor: What surprises me about this high-tech system of mass surveillance are the number of Chinese who have accepted it.
8 comments:
Accepted?
WNU.. they have no choice.
It's like saying Germans accepted Gestapo Nazis during 1940s. Some did, for sure.. (may they rest in hell), but most were just forced on gunpoint. In China, I would assume, if you speak out against that system you get a score 0, lose your job and join the Urdu's in "reeducation" camps. Just like you'd have the same faith in Nazi Germany. Arbeit macht frei and all that.
"ostensibly as part of a financial credit monitoring system similar to those used in the West"
"financial credit monitoring system"
Care to expound or are you going to keep it so generic as for it to mean anything?
I have to wonder now if you have a record for fraud.
"ostensibly as part of a financial credit monitoring system similar to those used in the West"
It should have been obvious as to why I posted only what I did as it is very thought provoking and should have caused you to do some thinking.
My mistake obviously I forgot that in addition to your inability to stay on topic in your responses to well crafted comments, you ability to think is rather non existent, Mr Trollee.
The only thing that people get about you is that you are a waste of carbon.
So you object to credit bureaus? Businesses are supposed to take blind risks with people who come to their office to contract for a loan?
Or maybe you have a problem with Life lock, because it makes your grifting harder?
Yeah Bob, you are waste of carbon.
No.
No.
No.
No. You are.
So your 11:!6 and 2:28 posts are at odds. You are trolling hard or have less than 1/2 a brain.
No they aren't and I got ya again Mr Trollee.
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