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Re:Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self... by fraudsyndrome on Sunday June 17, 2018 @09:54PM (#17335420)
> the roll-out of social credit scores in China

The thing is, these all aren't enforced by governments, but through social media and organizations. The popular one sesame credit in China is from the Alibaba group, not the Chinese government. In the same vein, Instagram is it's own platform, people can determine how much they think "followers" are worth and businesses can use their own discretion to decide how much to enforce their own policies based on others "social credit" or "followers"

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Re:Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self... by toomanybeersies on Monday June 18, 2018 @12:23AM (#17336009)
Your credit score isn't enforced by the government either, but a poor score (for reasons that may be beyond your control) will still prevent you from getting loans or credit.
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Re:Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self... by wpietri on Sunday June 17, 2018 @10:55PM (#17335710)
Which reminds me of the old joke, "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's the other way around."
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Re:Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self... by lioeters on Monday June 18, 2018 @03:04AM (#17336423)
Great quote, apparently by the economist John Kenneth Galbraith.
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Re:Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self... by mattigames on Sunday June 17, 2018 @10:06PM (#17335471)
Except that if the "social "companies keep growing and merging eventually they will have more power than governments and if you are not signed up you may as well don't exist.
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Re:Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self... by girvo on Monday June 18, 2018 @01:39AM (#17336181)
Which is explored (in a decent but not brilliant way) in the Emma Watson movie "The Circle". It's ending was somewhat chilling, if a little naff. I enjoyed it though, and provoked some interesting thoughts, even if it doesn't dive quite as deep as I'd like into this topic.
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Re:Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self... by mandelbrotwurst on Monday June 18, 2018 @01:26AM (#17336153)
Are you sure? The government will still have its monopoly on force and power to tax.
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