Comment by impalallama
3 years ago
every one rightly derides china's social credit scores yet here we are implementing our own them via entirely privately owned fiefdoms
3 years ago
every one rightly derides china's social credit scores yet here we are implementing our own them via entirely privately owned fiefdoms
It's not right to deride their social credit scores, when we've had them for decades, in the form of actual credit scores plus criminal records plus a no-fly list.
All these new developments are just slight changes to the system at its edges, the core of it is quite similar. But our society is myopic to its own problems.
Sorry, but it is absolutely right to deride their social credit scores even if we have our own similar system. As others have pointed out in this thread, ours have a completely different set of issues. Yes, they exist and should also be criticized, but saying that we can't criticize someone else's problems until we fix our own is bullshit. If that were the case, nothing would ever be fair to criticize.
Bollocks. This isn't a social credit score, this is one company blacklisting bad clients, and doing their best to ensure said bad clients don't game the system by using someone else's account.
Yeah I don't love the potential for ubiquitous tracking and judgment, but this isn't central government, it's AirBNB -- use VRBO, or Mariott, or Days Inn instead. Most hotels have, and have had for a long time, blacklists, too.