| So what are you saying here? I mean China has money and bank accounts too. Money's not western or capitalist. It has existed for many thousands of years. Are you saying that this social credit system is not a notable invention, that it doesn't mean anything? This isn't news. Maybe you're saying that criticism is hypocritical, throwing the first stone from a glass house...? Hypocrisy is almost always easy to claim, because everything is hypocritical in some sense. ISIS? Who doesn't claim god's on their side. Who doesn't kill people in war? Using chemical weapons? Why does it matter how you kill people. Dictator? Europe's not a perfect democracy either, dont'yaknow. Ie, unless we have a perfect, consistent system, shut up. China is a part of the world, a big part. Their great firewall has become a normative thing, and it's affecting the world. Now this. It affects us. We have a right to criticize. |