truth is usually somewhere messy in the middle.
"social credit score" *as portrayed in western media* (single evil number that bans you from trains) ≠ chinese gov data systems. but that doesn't mean there isn't a sprawling mesh of blacklists, facial id databases on every street corner, and totally opaque algorithms deciding whether your loan app gets denied or you can't book flights "for security reasons".
point is: wether it's one evil number or 20 opaque databases, the water's definitely there. fish just stopped noticing.
the fix ain't yelling "propaganda" and ignoring the cameras - it's demanding *impossible-to-abuse* money + comms that the state literally *can't* freeze or spy on.
pst, if you're into that vibe: https://vectorapp.io
Interesting that the way you described the Chinese gov sounds a lot like how folks on nostr describe the us government…
Obviously china has their own issues that we know of and some we don’t, but my point is that the whole social credit score thing is just a buzz word to invoke fear and distract from the fact that the us also has similar systems.
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