Re:China's social credit system blocked 11M flights and 4M t...
by Cogito on Thursday May 24, 2018 @08:53PM
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The article was careful to put that quote in context, which you haven't supplied here.
They were almost certainly referring to the system being used against debtors who are not paying their debts. It's not a case of saying "people who have a bad score should be made bankrupt" but "people who are not paying their debts should have so much social pressure exerted on them that they would rather go bankrupt than not pay their debts".
Their are situations I can imagine under such a system that are unethical, but I'm not as certain that it's unethical by definition.
Re:China's social credit system blocked 11M flights and 4M t...
by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @05:59PM
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This gives you a nice feedback loop, because once the person becomes bankrupt, you can use the bankruptcy to (further) discredit them...
Re:China's social credit system blocked 11M flights and 4M t...
by sitkack on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @10:12PM
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The US has the lite version of this where the poor pay disproportionally more for everything and face harsher penalties for when stuff goes wrong.
That's pretty clear exactly what they are going for. Not a lot of ambiguity there, but it's unclear if it's a strategy that will have a positive outcome, my guess is probably not. Certainly not ethical in my opinion.