[fortythirteen]

Its intended purpose has little to do with monitoring.

This starts Orwellian and end Huxleyan, in that a generation or two in, the majority of people's perception will be altered. They have no access to dissenting thought and their critical thinking skills are as dull as a doorknob.

This is about thought control.

[LifeLiverTransp]

So many methods where tryied, but when the great cycle of strife comes back with force, i sincerely doubt that 'social' credits will prevent hunger riots. Other people cant judge you if you eat them first.

[dmoy]

Yea the number of unpublicized civil disobedience (protest, whatever) in China is pretty staggering. China media doesn't pick up on it for obvious reasons, Western media I guess is only interested when they can fit it into their narrative (e.g. 6/4), which isn't the case for relatively uninteresting protest at random factory or whatever. I mean you see some on Western news, but it's like 10 strikes/protests a day on average, and we don't see the scale of it here.

When you see that, it frames a lot of the party's actions and you see why (maybe you don't agree with it still, whatever). Basically scared shitless of a mass uprising, and trying to keep enough of the fires out, or at least mildly smoldering instead of rating.