(citation needed - that’s not actually implemented in china at scale, though it’s a convenient talking point in the west)
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.
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.