Well this sounds a bit familiar...
Next step is adding a scoring system with penalties for certain behavior and it will be quite similar to the social system that is rolling out in China...
Observers on social media compared the platform’s name “We” to the highly influential 1921 dystopian novel of the same name by Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin.
They actually couldn't choose a different name than the novel that was written specifically about this very dystopian subject? Did they use it as inspiration? Because that seems more than coincidence...
Weibo and WeChat hide
It's a blocking method. If 90% of the people who search a term are looking for the social platform it becomes much harder to find the book. Think of it like trying to find archival news articles about a perennial topic. You have to wade through all the recent shit and then there's 2 hits from the time period you're checking.
The social rating figures don’t affect [a person’s] life, the availability of services or the career trajectory in any way
unless you're gay...
There are no gay people in Russia.
shoots gun
Not anymore
Then what are they for? Like the government just puts up a leaderboard and leaves it at that.
This is literally the plot for a Black Mirror episode.
This is literally the plot for *China.
From. Nosedive to be specific.
I think for was actually the right word choice there, because Black Mirror in no way came up with the concept
or, for an example with better writing, a Community episode
They made meow meow beans?
They've taken everything subjective and unspoken about human interaction and reduced it to explicit, objective numbers. I've never felt so alive.
Cool.
Cool cool cool.
I see the North Korea visit was pretty useful
“The social rating figures don’t affect [a person’s] life, the availability of services or the career trajectory in any way,” RSSU said on the platform’s website. “But who knows what these figures will mean for you in the future?”
Well that's a relief...
When was the last time an entity that generated stats about someone didn’t end up with those stats being used to the detriment of the individual - or at the very least for the profit of another?
There was me thinking it could be used for something sinister.
Let's see how the Make Russia China campaign goes!
I give this news 5 MeowMeowBeenz.
You can see why all the M-Ls on this site want Russia to win their fascist invasion. Clearly the Revolution lives.
Some .ml fellas can explain that this is good, actually. Oil oligarch kleptocracy with murdering political opponent characteristics is one of the most leftist governments possible, so everything they do is good.
Russia can into tinpot dictator.
Named “We,” the platform promises to determine a user’s comparative “social status” based on a survey that includes questions about income, family status, benefits, creditworthiness, criminal record, lifestyle and state awards, among others.
Criminal record: putin's scoreboard of excellency https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3174724/russias-putin-decorates-army-unit-accused-ukraine-war-crimes
How many putinpoints do they get for using a 3 to 13million$ Kh-101 cruise missile to bomb a children's hospital chemo ward?
approximately the same thing an idf soldier gets for doing the same thing.
So the credit score system in the US, but more?
How many hoops did you have to jump through to land at that comparison?
Nah. Troll trap. No fun.
Putinism as it is. Oligarchy and survailance.
Seems like RSSU is fishing for the government's money.
It's probably very badly implemented and doesn't work as described. In a sense this is good, but my point stands.
I sure hope you're right on it not working properly, for the common russkies' sake
The devs of this planet are lazy and rehashing content.
Russia now has a social credit system just like china and also the united states
You see, in the States, your credit score is an indication of how likely you are to be responsible and comply with the terms of a loan or other bank-related contract. If you have a low score, you don’t get a loan, because the bank sees you as a risk that you will not give their money back. You can still live your life normally, even with a low score, and possibly even rebuild your score over time. Only what you do with money influences your credit score.
In China, the social credit score is an indication of how loyal you are to the regime. A low social credit score, which is earned by disrespecting the regime or not following the silliest of laws, forbids you from using public transport, buying stuff, or getting education.
You can’t miss that contrast.
While you're right that there's a vast difference between a credit score and a social credit score, I would argue that the US credit score system does have a bigger impact on one's life than just not being able to get a loan. It is used to deny housing and employment and makes purchases more expensive due to higher payback rates. Since so much of our economy is built on consumer spending without the needed growth in wages over the last fifty or so years, some kind of personal debt is needed especially for people with low incomes who have to cover essentials one way or the other. It creates a self-reinforcing spiral that keeps poor people poor.
Things have improved here and there with the CFPB and some anti-discrimination ordinances at the local level, but it's hardly enough to narrow the effect as you described. Heck, it took us until the Biden administration to propose to ban medical debt from affecting credit scores.
In both cases, these scoring systems are part of a suite of incentives to get people to play by the rules of the power structures that exist: social credit for national authoritarians hierarchies and TransEquiSperiFax for the authority of capitalist hierarchies.
Again, you're not completely wrong and I don't want to claim that one system is anywhere close to being as pernicious as the other, but the US system not quite so harmless as you say. Sorry for making this so US-centric but that's where I have the most perspective.
And yet you still try to conflate the two... interesting.
Every banking system has some kind of credit score. Social scoring is what's relatively new and has to keep us on edge because also governments of mostly free societies have a natural interest in such systems.
Indeed, thank you for some lucidity.
New feature is ... Putin has 0 points and is the goal to go to?
We've already got personal wealth as a social credit system pretty much everywhere.
Best explaination of why Putinism as bad as capitalism.
so, Facebook?
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
