{"id":41310,"date":"2018-12-05T08:40:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T13:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41310"},"modified":"2018-12-05T08:40:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T13:40:52","slug":"15-million-people-were-just-blacklisted-from-travel-by-chinas-social-credit-program-and-its-coming-to-america-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41310","title":{"rendered":"15 Million People Were Just Blacklisted from Travel by China\u2019s Social Credit Program and It\u2019s Coming to America Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"AdThrive_Header_1_desktop\" class=\"adthrive-ad adthrive-dynamic adthrive-header\" data-google-query-id=\"CJW-_KrniN8CFReZyAodCpoENQ\">\n<h3 id=\"google_ads_iframe_18190176\/AdThrive_Header_1\/5823956c3475ed475dc72cc9_0__container__\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/chinas-social-credit-travel-blacklisted\/\">15 Million People Were Just Blacklisted from Travel by China\u2019s Social Credit Program and It\u2019s Coming to America Soon<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"m-f\"><\/div>\n<p>China\u2019s social credit system is in full swing and has already blacklisted more than 15 million Chinese residents from travel. Is it coming soon to the U.S.?<\/p>\n<p>Recently, The Organic Prepper reported some shocking news of China\u2019s newest rollout: <strong>a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/is-a-social-credit-program-coming-to-america-or-is-it-already-here\/\">social credit system<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a system of surveillance and governance using a social scoring system based on the state\u2019s perceived trustworthiness of the individual. Not only are social media and financial accounts tied into a person\u2019s \u201cscore\u201d \u2013 much like a credit score number \u2013 but also friends and associates are compelled to distance themselves from an offending person, otherwise, their score can be dropped too.<\/p>\n<p>The program is called the <strong>Sesame Score<\/strong>. Symbolically this represents \u201copen sesame\u201dor doorways that are eithe r opened or blocked to the individual who tries to move freely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A totalitarian dream<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This is every totalitarian government\u2019s ultimate dream: a society that polices itself, its thoughts, its beliefs and each other.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the ultimate power imbalance and crushes individual will. If such a scoring system should be used it should be in cases of state or institution accountability such as checking politicians\u2019 funding sources or Glassdoor.com where employees and interviewees can evaluate companies to let others know about the real company culture. But social scoring cannot work the other way around in a free society.<\/p>\n<p>The ramifications of this are perfectly encapsulated by the episode of Netflix\u2019s futurist show <em>Black Mirror<\/em>called \u201cNosedive\u201d in season 3 episode 1, where a woman trying to boost her social credit status quickly takes a turn for the worse. Out of all the shows in the series, that episode makes my heart pound right out of my chest because it seems the most <strong><em>real<\/em> <\/strong>of all the surreal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/china-s-dystopian-social-credit-system-science-fiction-black-mirror-mass-surveillance-digital-dictatorship\">dystopian<\/a> themes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 Million People Were Just Blacklisted from Travel by China\u2019s Social Credit Program and It\u2019s Coming to America Soon China\u2019s social credit system is in full swing and has already blacklisted more than 15 million Chinese residents from travel. Is it coming soon to the U.S.? Recently, The Organic Prepper reported some shocking news of [&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":[130,23233,22790,5756,1213,827],"class_list":["post-41310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-china","tag-meadow-clark","tag-social-credit-system","tag-the-organic-prepper","tag-totalitarianism","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41310","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=41310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41311,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41310\/revisions\/41311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}