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1. zeusdclxvi · 1790970691 · focus · HN ↗

   "Social death" is a common thing on Chinese social media apparently, shame-based virtue

   1. F3nd0 · 1790971367 · focus · HN ↗

      I assume it runs deeper, but that doesn’t feel all that foreign compared to the US, does it?

      1. zeusdclxvi · 1790971901 · focus · HN ↗

         I don't know, I think it does, US social media is rather shameless, there's certainly no national social credit score or anything

         1. nixon_why69 · 1790985832 · focus · HN ↗

            The US has 3 national credit rating agencies.

            One big disconnect the US has with China is that it's a putatively communist state running a hypercapitalist economy. So they frequently do capitalist stuff with that scary word "socialism" attached to it. Like introduce a fleet of pilot credit systems and calling it social credit.

            Mix this phenomenon with US high school civics class and a few propagandists and you get the American view of "social credit score".

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