Comment by vkou
3 years ago
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.