Don't confuse that with "social credit" systems, whereby China prevents you from riding trains if you say something naughty.
https://mronline.org/2022/07/27/national-security-search-eng...
that's why the US wants to ban TikTok asap, because they don't want china to be able to do what they are doing for decades too
> it would harm them because Twitter posts are unlikely to represent a meaningful variable when predicting someone's creditworthiness.
people get fired and arrested already for posting stuff on twitter, in both the US and Europe, so no, it's not just just a "twitter moderation" thing
Ask yourself why they are allowed to exist and still operate despite unable to grow and are loosing money for years, talk about anti-competitive practices, unless it's in reality a government body in disguise
If you believe that, then you also support efforts to force big tech to respect freedom of political speech, yes?
It has begun right here in the United States and we just are oblivious to these new dastardly form of social credits.
Try and keep up.
Where exactly does it say it’s ever progressed beyond trials and announcements ie implemented at scale - oh it doesn’t
https://nhglobalpartners.com/china-social-credit-system-expl...
>As of December 2020, more than 80 percent of all the provinces, autonomous regions, and municipal cities had issued or were preparing to issue local credit laws and regulations.
That's my understanding as well.
> it's a convenient talking point in the west
When online comments get worked up about The Social Credit System, a key thing I believe they're trying to do is spread awareness of how disturbing it is that a government is even considering such a thing that, as we understand it, is closely related to being a core technology in an authoritarian dystopia.
While it's not implemented at scale, the unnerving fact is that govt policy makers did a careful enough take on a social credit system to decide that it was worthwhile investing (probably non-trivial amounts of ) money and resources into exploring it and did eventually reach a point where they were a handful of steps short of wide-scale implementation.