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On this episode of the Epoch
Topics we get into:
- Reasoning behind the social credit system in China
- How our credit history started in the US
- Doxxing and how social media history affects our credibility
- High-level explanation of China’s social credit system
- A misunderstood point of social credit restrictions
- Peer pressure as a weapon
- A personal story of lack of credit
- Lack of decorum culture/good social norms – social credit as a way of self-policing
- David has a Spanish moment connecting China to his home country of Costa Rica
- The reality of a surveillance state
- China’s history of changing its mind/trying things out
- What’s different in the US – “privacy”, social consequences… addicted to our social behavior
- Rongcheng
- NSA, Google, Amazon – illusion of choice
- Is Facebook worse than China sensoring
- Convenience vs privacy
- Value of data/power centralization
- Social credit/timebanking coming to the us
- Blockchain and the ownership of data
- What we did before welfare and the negative energy that it creates/the crappy effect on charity
- The negative feedback loop
- A more invasive monitoring than just digital facial recognition that’s going on
- Human right of being in control?
- Data as amoral
- Religion as a panopticon?
Our Posts for This Episode
Austin | Decentralizing the Socialist Quandry
Jen | What is Social Credit and What is it Good for?
Tico & Tina | Do We All Need an Eye in the Sky? Exploring China’s Social Credit
Matt |
Kat | Social Credit: Time to Get Your Head Out of the Sand
Resource/s Mentioned
Black Mirror “Nosedive” episode
motorbike podcast on social credit in China
DuckDuckGo
Andrew Yang
EarthNow
The Story of God with Morgan Freeman
