Re:China’s new ‘social credit system’
by arethuza on Monday May 20, 2019 @05:55AM
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From what I remember of 1984 I don't think everyone was spied on all the time - it was mainly the Outer Party members (~13% of the population) who were scrutinized so closely as they were the source of potential threats to the Inner Party. Most of the characters in the book, apart from O'Brien, were Outer Party members.
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Re:China’s new ‘social credit system’
by dsfyu404ed on Monday May 20, 2019 @09:04AM
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The proles were relatively free to do whatever but they were too poor to do much of anything which is why they were left free.
That said, the real life 1984 that we see slowly emerging in a piecemeal manner worldwide (faster in some places than in others) seems to mostly effect the lower and middle classes.