{"id":32043,"date":"2018-03-07T09:22:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T14:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32043"},"modified":"2018-03-07T09:22:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T14:22:38","slug":"how-chinas-social-credit-score-will-shape-the-perfect-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32043","title":{"rendered":"How China\u2019s Social Credit Score Will Shape the \u201cPerfect\u201d Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"article_page_big_img wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.thedailybell.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/library\/chinafail.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cdn.thedailybell.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/library\/chinafail.jpg 596w, http:\/\/cdn.thedailybell.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/library\/chinafail-300x173.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"344\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article_main\" class=\"article_text\" data-find=\"_1\">\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybell.com\/news-analysis\/how-chinas-social-credit-score-will-shape-the-perfect-citizen\/\">How China\u2019s Social Credit Score Will Shape the \u201cPerfect\u201d Citizen<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>If you have too much debt and bad\u00a0<span class=\"il\">credit<\/span>, it may be tough to get\u00a0<span class=\"il\">credit<\/span>\u00a0cards and loans. The idea is that people less likely to pay pack lenders get less\u00a0<span class=\"il\">credit<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Well imagine if there was a\u00a0<span class=\"il\">social<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"il\">credit<\/span>\u00a0system. But it was the government that used it to decide who could travel, or live in certain apartments. Imagine if your social credit was too low to send your kids to a private school, or get a better job.<\/p>\n<p>But what kind of behavior would warrant such a score?\u00a0<br clear=\"none\" \/><br clear=\"none\" \/><span class=\"il\">China<\/span>\u00a0is about to answer all our questions.<\/p>\n<p>The country has a\u00a0pilot program for a social credit system. The government will rate citizens based on how loyal they are to the state. Already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/2018\/02\/13\/world\/social-credit-score-china-blacklisted\">almost 10 million Chinese citizens have been blacklisted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese government has ultimate control over their citizens\u2019 lives because almost everything requires the national ID card. And the number assigned to citizens can simply be restricted for whatever the government wants to take away.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese media refers to those on the list as deadbeats.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"il\">Chinese<\/span>\u00a0citizens will be rated on their real life and online behavior for things like patriotism, hard work, and avoiding materialism. The system will aggregate all available data, taking into account what books citizens read, what they buy, and how long they spend playing video games.<\/p>\n<p>Bad\u00a0<span class=\"il\">social<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"il\">credit<\/span>\u00a0would eliminate the possibility of starting a business, staying in luxury hotels, and buying or renting property.<\/p>\n<p>Not only will big data be used to rate the citizens,\u00a0<span class=\"il\">China<\/span>\u00a0will also rely on peer ratings. It is the ultimate\u00a0<span class=\"il\">social<\/span>\u00a0governance; making citizens police their neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>By 2020, adults will all have an assigned\u00a0<span class=\"il\">social<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"il\">credit<\/span>\u00a0score in addition to their identity card.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How China\u2019s Social Credit Score Will Shape the \u201cPerfect\u201d Citizen If you have too much debt and bad\u00a0credit, it may be tough to get\u00a0credit\u00a0cards and loans. The idea is that people less likely to pay pack lenders get less\u00a0credit. Well imagine if there was a\u00a0social\u00a0credit\u00a0system. But it was the government that used it to decide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[130,7188,12289,379,19142,19141,1169],"class_list":["post-32043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-china","tag-chinese-government","tag-daily-bell","tag-government","tag-national-id-card","tag-social-credit","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32044,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32043\/revisions\/32044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}