China is building a digital dictatorship to exert control over its 1.4B citizens

Re:China is building a digital dictatorship to exert control... by throwaway_trust on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @02:35PM (#18026550)

What was the reasoning behind social credit system? To keep track of bad actors or create surveillance nation?

On a side note, this is what happens when "technocrats" become the ruling class in overwhelming majority. Ability to apply technical solution to societal problems. Most of the China's ruling class are technocrats. We need anthropologists, social scientists, philosophers as law makers. Yes technocrats should be there in the mix too but they alone won't fix societal problems.

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Re:China is building a digital dictatorship to exert control... by chaostheory on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @02:40PM (#18026600)

Probably both. It's no secret that China has long aspired to transform into Singapore - clean and sterile. CCP leaders have been openly talking about it for decades now. Compared to the mainland, Singapore doesn't have large issues with stuff like crime or social order. imo Singapore has achieved it via a technological Big Bro state.

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