China bans 23m from buying travel tickets as part of 'social credit' system
theguardian.com
Doug Hamlin
1173 days ago
This isn't a dystopian novel; this is real.
The social credit system aims to incentivise “trustworthy” behaviour through penalties as well as rewards. According to a government document about the system dating from 2014, the aim is to “allow the trustworthy to roam everywhere under heaven while making it hard for the discredited to take a single step.”