China’s new ‘social credit system’

Re:China’s new ‘social credit system’ by JumpCrisscross on Monday May 20, 2019 @08:20AM (#19959626)

Assange published, with zero redaction, military assets. The journalists who wrote about it and activists who protested surrounding it were not jailed. They didn’t have their credit scores dinged. They were allowed to go about their peaceful dissent.

Cleaner example would have been Snowden, who peacefully dissented and responsibly disclosed his leaks. But even then, the comparison would be wrong. Snowden is a single case, and one which one can freely argue shines poorly on American values. The social credit experiments point to Beijing’s ambitions to scale the threat Snowden saw realised against him nationally and explicitly.

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Re:China’s new ‘social credit system’ by raxxorrax on Monday May 20, 2019 @09:16AM (#19959991)

> Assange published, with zero redaction, military assets

And he published information about war crimes. Sorry to mention it, but I prefer to stay on topic. That is on the military and I don't see why it should get any form of protection here.

edit: To clarify: The military has been traitorous to their own people, therefore to itself and is fully responsible for anything that happened.

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Re:China’s new ‘social credit system’ by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Monday May 20, 2019 @08:51AM (#19959822)

> Assange published, with zero redaction, military assets.

Which is illegal how exactly?

> The journalists who wrote about it and activists who protested surrounding it were not jailed.

So, the journalist Julian Assange was not jailed then?

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