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China Will Use Millions Of Zimbabwe Citizens To Improve Facial Recognition Accuracy
China Will Use Millions Of Zimbabwe Citizens To Improve Facial Recognition Accuracy As China spreads its economic footprints across multiple continents with The Belt and Road Initiative, and exercises more and more control over the lives of its subjects via a combination its Social Credit Score system and vast surveillance state, it appears Beijing’s Big […]
China: Man Interrogated For Criticizing Police on Social Media
China: Man Interrogated For Criticizing Police on Social Media Social credit score coming to the west soon. A video out of China shows a man being called in and interrogated by authorities for the crime of criticizing the police on social media. The clip shows the man handcuffed to a metal chair as he is […]
Beijing To Link Facial Recognition System With Social Credit Score In New Metro Security Checks
Beijing To Link Facial Recognition System With Social Credit Score In New Metro Security Checks Officials in Beijing will combine the country’s state-of-the-art facial recognition technology with a version of their controversial ‘credit system’ to speed up security checks in the city’s overcrowded metro system, according to HKFP. Long queues and commuters arguing with staff over […]
USSA Social Credit: The U.S. Denied Entry to Student Because of His Friend’s Social Media Posts
USSA SOCIAL CREDIT: THE U.S. DENIED ENTRY TO STUDENT BECAUSE OF HIS FRIEND’S SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS A Harvard student has been denied entry to the United States because of what one of his friends posted on social media. Ismail Ajjawi reportedly had his visa canceled after hours of questioning at Boston’s airport by the USSA. […]
The Conflicting Forces of Modernism: Kafka and Kierkegaard
The Conflicting Forces of Modernism: Kafka and Kierkegaard We seem to be heading into a confrontation between the two forces of Modernism: the primacy of the individual versus the increasing technological and economic might of the central state. In Kafka’s Nightmare Emerges: China’s “Social Credit Score” (May 7, 2018), I wrote about Kafka’s vision of […]
The Implicit Desperation of China’s “Social Credit” System
The Implicit Desperation of China’s “Social Credit” System Other governments are keenly interested in following China’s lead. I’ve been pondering the excellent 1964 history of the Southern Song Dynasty’s capital of Hangzhou, Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276 by Jacques Gernet, in light of the Chinese government’s unprecedented “Social Credit Score” […]
Communist China Moves To Control Billions Through ‘Social Credit’
Communist China Moves To Control Billions Through ‘Social Credit’ In a chilling but unsurprising move, Communist China seeks ultimate control over the population by introducing a scorecard which will supposedly keep the public in check. The big brother system will monitor all citizens 24/7 and keep a “score” of their activities. The Communist Party’s plan […]
Facebook’s Secret “User-Reputation Score” Exposed
Facebook’s Secret “User-Reputation Score” Exposed In a hideous reflection of China’s already-prevalent ‘Social Credit’ system – which is a rating assigned to each citizen based on government data regarding their economic and social status – The Washington Post reports that Facebook has begun to assign its users a reputation score, predicting their trustworthiness on a […]
Kafka’s Nightmare Emerges: China’s “Social Credit Score”
Kafka’s Nightmare Emerges: China’s “Social Credit Score” China is creating Kafka’s nightmare world as the perfection of centralized control of its citizenry. China is rapidly building out a Total Surveillance State on a scale that far surpasses any government surveillance program in the West. The scope of this surveillance is so broad and pervasive that […]
