Recently, my country—not in European or American continents—will pass a bill about requiring ID for creating any social media account. There's a justified panic about it since the ghouls who runs the country sold our every single personal information repeatedly.
I've watched a person talking about the recent news, and they mentioned the "Social Credit System" of China. The person said if one's credit score is low, they can't ride a train or their children won't be able to go to good schools.
Now, the person is rather left leaning, and they usually talk about the capitalism's harm on human psyche. But them comparing the SCS to the ID verification gave me the ick. Is there any good explanation—whether in English or other languages—about the SCS? That way, I can refute the further misinformation about it.
"China’s Orwellian Social Credit Score Isn’t Real" Foreign Policy 2018 https://archive.md/rVfyr
Basically it's a myth created from a lot of crossed wires, combining different China news items about data collection to create a boogeyman.