Is ‘Social Credit’ Coming to the West?
By H.K. Rivera
AmericanThinker.com
September 9, 2019
There exists in China a “Social Credit” system, which is used to decide an individual’s status as regards the state. This system works much like a traditional credit score does in the way of permitting you credit to make purchases. Each individual is granted an original score of 1000, and loses points for each social “offense.” The social score decides what you can do and even what you can be punished for.
First implementation began in 2014 and it is expected to be fully functional by 2020. “Social Credit” information shall be used, among other things, to check who will be permitted travel access. Tickets for planes and train, and even taxi rides, are subject to checking of your social credit.
The Chinese government is boasting about the social credit system, and how thus far they have prevented 2.5 million “discredited entities” from purchasing plane tickets and another 90,000 people from purchasing high-speed rail tickets in July.
The United Kingdom’s YouTube host Paul Joseph Watson outlined in his video “China’s TERRIFYING Social Credit” the everyday behaviors that Chinese citizens are having their credit scores lowered for engaging in:
“Bad driving, smoking on trains, buying too many video games, buying too much junk food, buying too much alcohol, calling a friend who has a low credit score, having a friend online who has a low credit score, posting ‘fake news’, criticizing the government, visiting unauthorized websites, walking your dog without a leash, letting your dog bark too much.”
The number of people not able to purchase tickets for means of travel is soaring, and as of November 2018 the number was at 6.7 million Chinese citizens.
People all over the world, not just in China, are seeing similar actions take place. PayPal will close the accounts of anyone it does not agree with on the political spectrum, and some of the big banks are closing the accounts for the same reason. JP Morgan Chase has already done exactly this. Investigative journalist James O’Keefe and his Project Veritas team has released a disturbing and eye-opening video on the runaround that Chase officials gave to Texas conservative entrepreneur Enrique Tarrio about his canceled account. In February 2019, the Texas Trump supporter received a letter from Chase Bank informing him that “after careful consideration,” the financial institution could “no longer support” his banking account. Mr. Tarrio is the President of the Miami chapter of the Proud Boys, and was labeled as a ‘far-right extremist.’
Big banks may very well be enabling America’s very own version of the Chinese social credit system in which the political dissent is identified, flagged, shunned, punished, and ultimately eradicated from society.
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