{"id":41360,"date":"2018-12-06T09:30:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T14:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41360"},"modified":"2018-12-06T09:30:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T14:30:36","slug":"is-china-really-more-dystopian-than-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41360","title":{"rendered":"Is China Really More \u201cDystopian\u201d Than The UK?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Is China Really More \u201cDystopian\u201d Than The UK?<\/a><\/h3>\n

RT reported that the UK\u2019s so-called \u201cNational Data Analytics Solution<\/a>\u201d will see an algorithm process whichever of 30 separate data points have been recorded about a person in local and national police databases in order to predict which members of the population are most likely to commit a crime or be victimized by one, after which the state will dispatch local health and social workers to offer \u201ccounseling\u201d to them in an attempt to prevent the computer\u2019s envisioned scenario from transpiring. This program is being likened to the 2002 film \u201cMinority Report\u201d and carries with it a vibe of China\u2019s controversial \u201csocial credit\u201d system<\/a>, albeit without any \u201crewards\u201d being offered for law-abiding behavior. In fact, one can actually make the claim that instead of the UK copying China to a degree, it was actually China that learned from the UK seeing as how the island nation\u2019s mass surveillance system used to be<\/a> far ahead<\/a> of the communist nation\u2019s one.<\/p>\n

The problem with \u201cpre-crime\u201d technology, however, is that it straddles the fine line between security and liberty in what is supposed to be a \u201cdemocracy\u201d, therefore making it uncomfortably out of place in the UK while being much more natural to implement in centrally controlled societies like China\u2019s. While the European country insincerely pretends to be a \u201cdemocracy\u201d in the Western sense of how this system is commonly assumed to function, the East Asian one makes no such pretenses and is proud of having a different organizational model, which should be doubly disturbing for any British citizen because it means that their \u201cdemocratically elected government\u201d is actually less forthcoming about its nationwide surveillance strategy than comparatively more centralized China\u2019s is. No value judgement is being made about either country\u2019s governing system, but the purpose of this comparison is to point out the surprising similarities between the two that are usually lost on most observers.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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Is China Really More \u201cDystopian\u201d Than The UK? RT reported that the UK\u2019s so-called \u201cNational Data Analytics Solution\u201d will see an algorithm process whichever of 30 separate data points have been recorded about a person in local and national police databases in order to predict which members of the population are most likely to commit […]<\/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":[6108,5469,130,3880,5570,5173,23238,23380,1869,13746,22790,765,2080],"class_list":["post-41360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-andrew-korybko","tag-central-control","tag-china","tag-dystopia","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-minority-report","tag-national-data-analytics-solution","tag-oreiental-review","tag-pre-crime","tag-russia-today","tag-social-credit-system","tag-surveillance","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41360","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=41360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41361,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41360\/revisions\/41361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}