[howlingfantods]

Just to add some color. There's currently no one 'social credit score' in China. There's some local government pilots and some private enterprise "credit scores." The ones you hear about often are stuff like Alipay's Sesame Credit, which gives you a score based on your activities in Alibaba's app ecology. Currently, Sesame credit is pretty harmless, and gives you discounts on online orders or financial products if your score is good. The danger is that the national government will soon get its ducks in order and hoover all this data into one overarching national credit score and use that to police behavior.

As for this applet, it's not really relevant to social credit scores. It's a mini-program inside WeChat that pulls data from court records. It doesn't list people who are in debt. Instead it lists people who have defaulted on debt, been taken to court, subject to court order to pay up a portion or the full amount, and still refused to pay.

[equalunique]

Thank you for the detailed context.