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Nothing intellectual to say, but this is not the future most Americans want. Privatized social credit system incoming?
by super_trooper 1y ago
Nothing intellectual to say, but this is not the future most Americans want. Privatized social credit system incoming?
- hilbert42 1y agoThere's nothing intellectual about this, it just sucks.
- hallway_monitor 1y agoThis American is all for banning facial recognition, with stiff penalties for the person in charge of any company or agency who breaks this ban. The US is not China and the government exists to serve and protect its citizens. At least in theory.
- dokyun 1y agoIronic since the Chinese already banned facial recognition.
- yard2010 1y agoI believe he meant the US doesn't harvest its citizens' organs and sell them for cash
- pythonic_hell 1y agoLast time I checked the US still allows prison slave labour and medical experiments on its prison population.
- antifa 1y agoAlmost there tho https://theintercept.com/2023/02/19/organ-donor-ethics-prison-massachusetts/ https://theintercept.com/2023/02/19/organ-donor-ethics-priso... https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/18/us/organs-removed-deceased-alabama-inmates/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/18/us/organs-removed-deceased-al...
- peterlada 1y agoCompared to this, the governmental credit system of China seems to me a giant improvement, no?
- danielspace23 1y agoIt would be if it existed. > According to a February 2022 report by the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), a social credit "score" is a myth as there is "no score that dictates citizen's place in society" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System
- mystified5016 1y agoThere's a pretty big split between what Americans want and what the US government wants. Same for EU and European citizens.