[hardnose]

Credit scores are not determined by the government. If a credit ratings agency took that step, it would harm them because Twitter posts are unlikely to represent a meaningful variable when predicting someone's creditworthiness.

Don't confuse that with "social credit" systems, whereby China prevents you from riding trains if you say something naughty.

[Kukumber]

government, FANG, it's all the same, the same group of lobby talking and coordinating with each other, hiring CIA agents and bunch of 'friends'

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

[hardnose]

> government, FANG, it's all the same

If you believe that, then you also support efforts to force big tech to respect freedom of political speech, yes?

[Kukumber]

i support nothing, i only am an observer and analyst

[egberts1]

Or that VP of Apple quoting from a movie called “Arthur” at an auto show resulting in him being fired.

It has begun right here in the United States and we just are oblivious to these new dastardly form of social credits.

[astrange]

Saying "they" are oppressing an Apple VP is an interesting contrast to the next post over which says Apple (FAANG) is part of "they".

[egberts1]

Except that it was the bevy of Apple VPs putting pressure on this ouster.

[wahnfrieden]

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

[challenger-derp]

> that's not actually implemented

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.

[wahnfrieden]

Ok. If we’re talking speculative planning, the US also considers bringing privatized credit score system under government control instead, the very thing OP is criticizing. I have no problem with criticizing authorities but the us vs them look how much worse it is in red china god bless our freedoms here angle is tired bootlicking too

[egberts1]

It is called 社会信用体系 .

Try and keep up.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System

[wahnfrieden]

Try and read.

Where exactly does it say it’s ever progressed beyond trials and announcements ie implemented at scale - oh it doesn’t

[egberts1]

seek and ye shall find

https://nhglobalpartners.com/china-social-credit-system-expl...

[wahnfrieden]

thank you. the most specific citation I could find in your link was this, regarding the 80% rollout statistic:

>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.

[egberts1]

I’m quite sure they are trying to automate this as well.