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2·12 days agoWatch the documentary. Each individual gets a score, and this score changes depending on your behaviour and the everyday decision you make - what you drink you buy, what food you eat. Whatever the party deems as desired or undesired behaviour, the score is increased or decreased.
the social credit score as it is imagined by westerners with AIs tracking your every move to make a number go up or down that determines your standing in society is fiction.
No, it isn’t fiction. It is real.
Every Chinese citizen gets a score, to which points are added or deducted depending on individual everyday actions.
The system rewards citizens based on their accumulated “score,” which basically reflects their alignment with state-approved values. A high score grants valuable incentives and preferential access to public services. For example, citizens with good credit may be exempt from paying deposits when using public hospitals or libraries, receive discounts on public transportation, and benefit from streamlined processes for certain international visas. Conversely, acts like running a red light or jaywalking can result in public shaming and a loss of points.
Based on this social credit system, the Chinese population is divided into 4 classes of citizens, depending on your score.
There is a documentary by a French journalist and his (Chinese) wife who were living in China’s capital Beijing. The documentary has been made in 2023, but there is an edited version from 2025 (I watched the film back in 2023 and also the 2025 version; as far as I remember, the 2025 edits reflect the role of AI in the system).
Here is a YT link: Life Under China’s Social Credit System: A Dystopian Reality?
Here an alternative Invidious link: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=p19nYrjZ1dQ
The documentary lasts 52 minutes.
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Source (Sixth Tone) is a Chinese state-funded soft-power outlet. That should not be relevant to this report, which is simply decent journalism.
This is always relevant, one reason being that they intentionally suppress certain information to spread propaganda and propagnada only. It’s the outlet’s sole raison d’être. This so-called “soft power” comes from the same dictatorial political system. It is an inherently bad and unreliable source and has nothing to do with decent journalism.
This is a Wikipedia link, and even if it’s indeed not like Xinhua or the Global Times, it is pure propaganda under the strict Chinese party-state’s control.
Your comparison with BBC and others is (as you probably know?) invalid. These journalists can, for example, criticize their governments which they frequently do.
Sixth Tone can’t do that. If the Shanghai, China-based media outlet would publish anything that is against Beijing’s narratives, it would be immediately censored (and the journalists may face severe punishments). But I guess you know that yourself.
Sixth Tone is a Chinese state-owned propaganda outlet published by Shanghai United Media Group.
As someone already said, this has been done in 1967 already.
It’s just another piece in OP’s endless pro-China and pro-Russia propaganda stream, apparently spread through various alt accounts. Sadly, this includes even cross-posts from ml comms.