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Re:China’s New Tool for Social Control: A Credit Rating for ... by mattnewton on Monday November 28, 2016 @05:55PM (#13059160)
I think what people have to watch closely is the collation of these different lists. The American do-not-fly list already is full of mistakes[0][1][2] and institutionalized prejudice[3][4], and so if that score affected more it would damage even more.

[0] http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/07/politics/no-fly-mistakes-cat-s...

[1] http://theresurgent.com/these-people-mistakenly-ending-up-on...

[2] https://theintercept.com/2016/04/06/class-action-suit-target...

[3] https://ccrjustice.org/home/get-involved/tools-resources/fac...

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/22/us-stops-bri...

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Re:China’s New Tool for Social Control: A Credit Rating for ... by r00fus on Monday November 28, 2016 @06:33PM (#13059353)
The fact that the no-fly list can be manipulated without visibility is exactly why it's so useful to authoritarian regimes like China's communist party and the US security-state.
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