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If you fail to make a credit card payment, get into an argument in public or say the wrong thing on social media, you could suddenly find yourself restricted from conducting a whole host of normal economic activities. The primary marketing slogan for this social credit system is “once discredited, everywhere restricted”
In other words, the Chinese government is banning enormous numbers of people from engaging in normal economic activities because they did something that the government does not like.
This sounds eerily similar to the economic restrictions that the Bible says will be imposed someday upon those that refuse to participate in the coming beast system.
As China’s system develops, it is inevitable that other nations will want to copy it. If you can get everyone in an entire country to fear that they are constantly being watched and that if they do “the wrong thing” they will be quickly punished, then you suddenly have a very powerful behavioral tool that can radically transform a society. It would basically be a dream come true for control freak politicians everywhere, and this kind of system would open the door for the worst kinds of tyranny.
And someday we could even see such a system implemented in the United States. In fact, former DHS head Michael Chertoff says that such a system is already starting to develop
originally posted by: NightSkyeB4Dawn
a reply to: infolurker
If this takes hold, I will immediately start Iooking for a job as a truck driver.
The society has no actual authorities, juts a system of voting by the general public on everyone's behavior, and John's is deemed bad enough for tele-voting which may result in 'social correction', a primitive electric brainwashing.
originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
a reply to: ausername
I'd have gone for a score of NEGATIVE INFINITY!!!