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A Little Bit Of Science

Rod's Umbrella Rentals and the Chinese Social Credit System!

03 May 2018

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Your phone rings. But instead of your normal ringtone*... it's a weird voice saying "The person calling you is dishonest! The person calling you is dishonest!"Welcome to the brave new world of China's rapidly developing Social Credit System - where trustworthy citizens earn points they can convert into free umbrella rental, and the untrustworthy find themselves blocked from flights, loans, houses and decent ringtones. We sat down to explore - also learning about a finance system based on dick pics! A hacker website called FraudBoom! And government vetoed trips to Bunnings!The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS*A chiptunes version of Shooting Stars oh yeah Team Wholesome know how to party!References here!https://chinacopyrightandmedia.wordpress.com/2014/06/14/planning-outline-for-the-construction-of-a-social-credit-system-2014-2020/https://www.businessinsider.com.au/china-social-credit-system-punishments-and-rewards-explained-2018-4?r=US&IR=Thttps://theconversation.com/chinas-social-credit-system-puts-its-people-under-pressure-to-be-model-citizens-89963http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-31/chinas-social-credit-system-punishes-untrustworthy-citizens/9596204http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-20/china-deploys-ai-cameras-to-tackle-jaywalkers-in-shenzhen/9567430https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/china-using-big-data-to-detain-people-in-re-education-before-crime-committed-report/article38126551/ort located by the rights organization.https://www.newstatesman.com/world/asia/2018/04/no-china-isn-t-black-mirror-social-credit-scores-are-more-complex-and-sinisterhttp://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34592186https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/12/12/chinas-chilling-social-credit-blacklisthttp://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n2543/pdf/ch06_forum_loubere.pdfhttp://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/viewpoint/unprecedented-reach-of-chinas-surveillance-statehttps://www.merics.org/en/microsite/china-monitor/chinas-social-credit-systemhttps://www.merics.org/sites/default/files/2017-09/China%20Monitor_39_SOCS_EN.pdfhttps://www.merics.org/sites/default/files/2017-12/171212_China_Monitor_43_Social_Credit_System_Implementation.pdfhttps://translate.google.com/translate?sl=zh-CN&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sohu.com%2Fa%2F155992905_380621&edit-text=http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/04/03/life-inside-chinas-social-credit-laboratory/http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/05/24/chinese-citizens-want-the-government-to-rank-them/https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/01/03/507983933/whats-your-public-credit-score-the-shanghai-government-can-tell-youSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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