China upgrades its Great Firewall

On a related note:
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China Announces New Social Credit Law - Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a MIT Technology Review article, written by Zeyi Yang: It's easier to talk about what China's social credit system isn't than what it is. Ever since 2014, when China announced a six-year plan to build a system to reward actions that build trust in...
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Sounds like a puff piece designed to make the West relax. They forgot to mention China has apparently used it to punish all those involved in the "escape from Alcatraz the Apple factories" by zeroing out their social credit scores so they cannot use any services and are trapped wherever they are.
 
sferrin said:
Sounds like a puff piece designed to make the West relax. They forgot to mention China has apparently used it to punish all those involved in the "escape from Alcatraz the Apple factories" by zeroing out their social credit scores so they cannot use any services and are trapped wherever they are.
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Not much different than what I'd expect Facebook or Google to do to their striking workers, but they usually get fired on the spot. America merely adopted capitalism, Foxconn was born in it, molded by it.
 

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