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Black Mirror coming true

AustralianuS said:
If you’ve watched the Netflix series Black Mirror, you’re familiar with how the show focuses on the dangers of social media and how society deals with technology. This right here is scary stuff.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ing-national-development-reform-a8260941.html
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The ominous "social credit" phrasing is certainly reflective of the episode Nosedive, though really when you get down to it what they're doing is nothing more than an extension of what we do here already, such as restricting the right to guns and voting after having committed felonies, or not being allowed to live within five hundred feet of schools if you've committed a sexual crime.

Nosedive was much more specific in that everybody was graded by everybody else all the time. If I lived under such a system I'd be at the lowest rung of society in six minutes.
 
Renae said:
Black Mirror? Hell the Orville did a an episode on this, it was pretty good.
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Saw that, although they took it further, where you would be jailed for it.
 
The left would love this

You would have a way to measure wokeness and punish people for not being woke enough
 
Renae said:
Black Mirror? Hell the Orville did a an episode on this, it was pretty good.
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I watched the Black Mirror episode then later in the day saw the Orville episode.

It was freaky.
 
Cardinal said:
The ominous "social credit" phrasing is certainly reflective of the episode Nosedive, though really when you get down to it what they're doing is nothing more than an extension of what we do here already, such as restricting the right to guns and voting after having committed felonies, or not being allowed to live within five hundred feet of schools if you've committed a sexual crime.

Nosedive was much more specific in that everybody was graded by everybody else all the time. If I lived under such a system I'd be at the lowest rung of society in six minutes.
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This is more than banning those who commit felonies. Read the article. The scary part comes in the form of the Chinese government arbitrarily deciding what constitutes a social credit penalty. I doubt the social credits depicted in Nosedive will ever be a part of our world, but what China is doing is similar enough to be eerily close.
 
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