Sesame Credit - what are your opinions?

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Article: (*edit: take it with a grain of salt)

(ANTIMEDIA) Oceania, China — As if further proof were needed Orwell’s
dystopia is now upon us, China has now gamified obedience to the State.
Though that is every bit as creepily terrifying as it sounds, citizens may still
choose whether or not they wish to opt-in — that is, until the program becomes compulsory in 2020.
“Going under the innocuous name of ‘Sesame Credit,’
China has created a score for how good a citizen you are,” explains Extra Credits’ video about the program.
“The owners of China’s largest social networks have partnered with the government
to create something akin to the U.S. credit score — but, instead of measuring how regularly you pay your bills,
it measures how obediently you follow the party line.”

Claire Bernish, December 21, 2015, "China Just Launched the Most Frightening Game Ever — and Soon It Will Be Mandatory"
@ http://theantimedia.org/china-just-launched-the-most-frightening-game-ever-and-soon-it-will-be-mandatory/

Extra Credit's video so you do not have to look up what Sesame Credit is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHcTKWiZ8sI

What are your opinions about this system? Do you think it's good or bad - do you think you'd have a good or bad score?

edit:
better source http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34592186

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[PurpleMetro]

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[Afraidanna]

This seems really cool

[ZSNO]

They're using some Youtube channel (THAT PRIMARILY DEALS WITH VIDEO GAMES) as a source for information.
And into the trash it gooooooes

[Honno]

wtf is with that guys voice

[Donnies Catch]

They're using some stuffty Youtube channel as a source for information.
And into the trash it gooooooes

here you go http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34592186

wtf is with that guys voice

its their "thing"

[Maxwell.]

china is a trash

[ZSNO]

here you go http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34592186
its their "thing"

According this article it's basically just the normal credit rating system, but with a few more variables.
Congrats, this same system already exists throughout the world.

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wtf is with that guys voice

they had to speed up their videos to keep it under the 10-minute video limit of old Youtube; thus, creating that voice, but then they choose to stick with it after the 10-minute limit was removed.

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According this article it's basically just the normal credit rating system, but with a few more variables.
Congrats, this same system already exists throughout the world.

The way in which it goes about determining what your credit rating should be is in itself needlessly invasive. Seriously, in order to take into account all these variables they'd need a massive amount of data on every single citizen, who they associate with, their political standings, their computer activity (this should be ringing some serious alarm bells in your head), etc. and put together represents a massively abusable platform for social engineering of their citizens.

What makes this all the more suspicious to me on top of all that is the fact that they weren't allowed to give details because they feared the chinese government wouldn't do business with them if they talked to foreign media. More alarm bells. Why are these companies trying to be secretive of this system? Why does the chinese government not want them talking to foreign media?

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their political standings

Not sure where you pulled this from.

Basically for everything else you said, it's China. Not sure why you don't think they already have data on everyone and access to everyone's computers.