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Re:China’s new ‘social credit system’ by ImaCake on Monday May 20, 2019 @07:36AM (#19959351)
The soviet satellite republics strike me as another real world 1984 dystopia. You can watch whole movies about the terrifyingly real East German Stasi.
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Re:China’s new ‘social credit system’ by sgift on Monday May 20, 2019 @07:46AM (#19959424)
The Securitate (The secret service of Romania) would be another equally terrifying example.
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Re:China’s new ‘social credit system’ by icebraining on Monday May 20, 2019 @08:11AM (#19959574)
In the novel itself, Ingsoc is said to be similar to the CPSU. Orwell was drawing direct inspiration from the USSR under Stalin, as well as from other real world events.
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