What if the popularity of your social media profiles determined your ability to get a job, enroll in good school, or board an airline flight?
The springboard for this discussion came from a couple of fictional TV show episodes but the catalyst for discussion came from “Social Credit System” that the Chinese government has implemented onto its 1.3 billion citizens.
This movie night sparked some lively discussion as well as the usual welcomed opportunity for fellowship and fun. Want to keep up with the Movie night schedule? Follow us on Facebook or send us an email to be added to our email notifications!
For more information about the Chinese Social Credit System, visit the links below.
China social credit
system, punishments and rewards explained – Business Insider
by Alexandra Ma
Oct. 29, 2018, 12:06 PM
https://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-system-punishments-and-rewards-explained-2018-4
The complicated truth about China’s social credit system | WIRED UK
By Nicole Kobie
Monday 21 January 2019
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/china-social-credit-system-explained
Chinese Social Credit Score: Utopian Big Data Bliss Or Black Mirror On
Steroids? | Forbes
Jan 21, 2019, 12:37am
by Bernard Marr
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2019/01/21/chinese-social-credit-score-utopian-big-data-bliss-or-black-mirror-on-steroids/#6b561a5848b8
PBS article
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DwPfR1OWkAAiR7J.jpg:large
China’s Social Credit System : Planet Money : NPR
October 9, 20184:44 PM ET
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/10/09/655921710/chinas-social-credit-system
China’s Social Credit System – A Real Dystopian Future?
October 16, 2018
by Douglas Crawford
https://www.bestvpn.com/guides/china-social-credit-system/
Alibaba’s social credit rating is a risky game | Financial Times
John Gapper
February 21, 2018
https://www.ft.com/content/99165d7a-1646-11e8-9376-4a6390addb44
China: When big data meets big brother – Financial Times
Charles Clover
January 19, 2016
https://www.ft.com/content/b5b13a5e-b847-11e5-b151-8e15c9a029fb
China’s dystopian social credit system is a harbinger of the global age of the
algorithm
January 15, 2018 6.35am EST
https://theconversation.com/chinas-dystopian-social-credit-system-is-a-harbinger-of-the-global-age-of-the-algorithm-88348
China’s plan to organize its society relies on ‘big data’ to rate everyone
| The Washington Post
By Simon Denyer
October 22, 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/chinas-plan-to-organize-its-whole-society-around-big-data-a-rating-for-everyone/2016/10/20/1cd0dd9c-9516-11e6-ae9d-0030ac1899cd_story.html
The Chinese Social Monitoring System and Why Americans Should Take Note
October 10, 2018
By Paul Rowan Brian
https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2018/10/43905/
China has started ranking citizens with a creepy ‘social credit’ system —
here’s what you can do wrong, and the embarrassing, demeaning ways they can
punish you | Business Insider
Alexandra Ma
Oct 30, 2018, 6:00 AM
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/china-social-credit-system-punishments-and-rewards-explained-2018-4?r=US&IR=T
China’s Chilling ‘Social Credit’ Blacklist | The Wall Street Journal
A lawyer is barred from buying a plane ticket because a court found his apology
‘insincere.’
By Maya Wang
Dec. 11, 2017 6:47 p.m. ET
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-chilling-social-credit-blacklist-1513036054
or see the whole thing at:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/12/12/chinas-chilling-social-credit-blacklist
How China Is Using
“Social Credit Scores” to Reward and Punish Its Citizens | Time
By Charlie Campbell / Chengdu
http://time.com/collection/davos-2019/5502592/china-social-credit-score/
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Tucker Carlson Tonight
3/11/19 [Full] | Fox News March 11, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXSbQa403vE
SNL “Five Stars” skit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDQaSuikPss