He said we need a social credit system to merge rule by law and rule by virtue. When did that develop into what is called the social credit system?įormer Chinese leader Jiang Zemin spoke about this in 2000. It’s this idea of shaping the environment, shaping how people think, how they’re willing to act before they even know they’re making a choice. It’s a way of not only coercive control, but also sort of cooperative control where you participate in your own management. If you go back to even the late 1970s and early 80s, the way the Chinese Communist party (CCP) talks about technology is as a tool of social management. It’s not just the internet, it’s technology in general. When did China pivot from seeing the internet as a US-generated threat to something it could use to discipline and punish its own population?
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