Grazie,
il titolo "dystopian nightmare" si adatta altrettanto bene al modello di
sorveglianza americano.
"A low social credit score will exclude you from well-paid jobs, make it
impossible for you to get a house or a car loan or even book a hotel
room." è quanto succede anche in US.
Analisi come queste condannano non la sorveglianza, ma l'impiego della
sorveglianza da parte dello Stato comunista.
Il confronto dovrebbe contemplare l'alternativa *non* basata sulla
sorveglianza, altrimenti implicitamente accettiamo la sorveglianza come
inevitabile.

Alberto



On 21/05/2019 09:51, Enrico Poli wrote:
> Ogni occasione per saperne di più sull’avanguardia cinese è buona, ma
> in questo caso io ho dubbi sull’affidabilità dell’autore. Fonti di
> seconda mano, e una affiliazione certo non neutrale:
>
>>  Steven W. Mosher is the president of the Population Research
> Institute <https://www.pop.org/>
>
> Anche: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_Research_Institute  
>
> Naturalmente, solo perché io non sono d’accordo con le tesi di questo
> istituto non vuol dire che quel che scrive il suo presidente sul
> sistema di credito sociale cinese sia prevenuto; sembra però che
> l’istituto consideri la Cina un suo nemico politico (per le questioni
> di controllo riproduttivo), e ne terrei conto facendo la tara
> sull’articolo. Dubito che solo (cito) le «like-minded socialist
> dictatorships» guardino agli esperimenti in Cina con curiosità.
>
> Enrico
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 21 May 2019 at 09:11, Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@tesio.it
> <mailto:giacomo@tesio.it>> wrote:
>
>     https://nypost.com/2019/05/18/chinas-new-social-credit-system-turns-orwells-1984-into-reality/
>
>     Imagine calling a friend. Only instead of hearing a ring tone you hear
>     a police siren, and then a voice intoning, “Be careful in your
>     dealings with this person.” [...]
>
>     Say you arrive at the Beijing airport, intending to catch a flight to
>     Canton 1,200 miles south. The clerk at the ticket counter turns you
>     away because — you guessed it — your social credit score is too low.
>
>     [...] you are then forced to travel by slow train. What should have
>     been a three-hour flight becomes a 30-hour, stop-and-go nightmare.
>
>     All because the government has declared you untrustworthy. Perhaps you
>     defaulted on a loan, made the mistake of criticizing some government
>     policy online or just spent too much time playing video games on the
>     internet. All of these actions, and many more, can cause your score to
>     plummet, forcing citizens onto the most dreaded rung on China’s
>     deadbeat caste system, the laolai.
>
>     [...] The government algorithm will go as far as to install an
>     “embarrassing” ring tone on the phones of laolai, shaming them every
>     time they get a call in public.
>
>     “Tapping on a person marked on the map reveals their personal
>     information, including their full name, court-case number and the
>     reason they have been labeled untrustworthy. Identity-card numbers and
>     home addresses are also partially shown,” ABC reported. [...]
>
>     The government claims that its purpose is to enhance trust and social
>     stability by creating a “culture of sincerity” that will “restore
>     social trust.” [...]
>
>     Individuals can earn points, for example, for reporting those who
>     violate the new restrictions on religious practice, such as Christians
>     who illegally meet to pray in private homes, or the Muslim Uyghurs and
>     Kazakhs in China’s far west whom they spot praying in public, fasting
>     during Ramadan or just growing a beard. [...]
>
>     Western criticism of the new system has been intense, with Human
>     Rights Watch describing it as “chilling.”
>
>     In response, Chinese Communist Party publications scoff that
>     Westerners are simply too unsophisticated to understand the wonders of
>     the new system.
>
>     In the words of China’s Global Times, “The hypothetical theories of
>     the West are based on their ignorance.” The massive social credit
>     system, it goes on to say, is simply “beyond the understanding of
>     Western countries.”
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