Some articles from 2019...pre-covid
You might not have a "score," but your privileges can still be taken away.
futurism.com
But it was built by Silicon Valley and not by the government.
Many Americans might find the power of China's social credit system astonishing. But a newly published Fast Company story argues that people in the U.S. are already beholden to a similar system — it's just established and enforced by private companies instead of the government.
The magazine provides several examples to bolster the claim.
Life insurance companies can now base a person's premiums on the content of their social media feeds, for example. Meanwhile, a company called PatronScan maintains a list of "objectionable customers" that bars and restaurants can use to exclude certain visitors.
And that's nothing compared to larger platforms. Airbnb now has more than 6 million listings, so a ban from that app can dramatically impact a person's ability to find accommodations. And Airbnb can ban anyone it wants to — it doesn't even need to give them a reason.
It no longer seems paranoid to worry about surveillance and facial recognition.
www.wsj.com
The sanctions to discourage bad behavior show how deep the techniques of control can be in a modern totalitarian state. People with low social-credit scores are publicly shamed. Their internet speeds are reduced; they’re denied good jobs and banned from air or train travel. Their children are kept out of prestigious schools, and even their pets can be taken from them. The ultimate goal is to create a wholly docile and submissive citizenry.
French philosopher Michel Foucault thought that Western societies did the same thing, in their way. In “Discipline and Punish” (1975), he argued that through their schools, factories and the military, free-market societies turn their citizens into passive and unquestioning automatons and thereby build a metaphorical “panopticon.” The reference was to British philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s proposal for a circular prison in which each cell would face the guard at the very center, so that he could see every inmate at a glance. The prisoners would know they could be watched at any time—and so would the guard.
The metaphor of Western society as a panopticon caught on among radical leftists who needed an explanation for why Americans rejected socialism. As fanciful as that was, it did acknowledge that pervasive social control would be oppressive. But does the left still think so, now that it controls important institutions including higher education and much of the media and big business?
This is another reason I have been beating on the Max Blumenthal network so hard...
It has been clearly laid out by the American public/private/academic/etc. tech experts who went over to BUILD the actual infrastructure for the CCP's Uighur surveillance state and citizen social credit systems that this was a beta test for a structure which was eventually intended for the US (and therefore the world)...
Max Blumenthal is doing his part to push these agendas in service of the DC elites he is spawned from and the pseudo-Socialist, Jewish supremacist masters and handlers he serves...
https://vigilantcitizenforums.com/threads/max-blumenthal-grayzone-exposed.9694/