Loan for freedom. Reporting from a Chinese dystopia

Russian TV channel "Zvezda" (https://bit.ly/31a9WQK) released
a sensational report on the advanced experiments of the Chinese
Communist Party in the field of social rating of citizens. Now
every citizen has a starting rating of 1000 points. Every act, every
behavior of a person in society is analyzed and points are either
added or removed. If the personal rating grows, then the person
becomes an exemplary citizen and receives discounts, benefits,
low loan rates, and so on from the regime.
For an average rating, people can be fired from a good public
office. If the rating is low, then it is tantamount to a black mark.
People will be even ban to rent a bike. With people from the
lower category, they try, if possible, not to intersect and not
communicate.
Chinese journalist Li Hu recalls standing in horror in front of a
train ticket machine for several minutes, unable to understand why
he was denied a trip to a neighboring province. Only after finding
out the reason, the journalist found out that he was blacklisted.
Due to the communist court's indictment of one of Li Hu's articles.
The journalist believes that this is only the beginning of all
troubles.
This project of building a totalitarian world, unprecedented in its
scope and ambitions, is called dystopia in literature. With the help
of the "digital gulag", China is building a terrible society of
robotic, brainwashed and trustworthy citizens in all respects. Now
everything that happens in the life of a resident of a large city is
subject to strict accounting and control.
The social rating system will solve many problems of re-education.
It is too late to influence a person when it is already necessary to
send him to prison. Detachment from society cannot re-educate
anyone. But the fear of censure can. Belive of architect of the idea
of a digital gulag, Lin Jang Yu. For more than 6 years, the Chinese
authorities have been developing and working out all the nuances
of the new program. Hundreds of thousands of outdoor surveillance
cameras with face recognition systems, hundreds of mobile
applications and Internet resources are combined into a single
database. Payment systems, social, road and utility services provide
all the information they have about each person. A special algorithm
calculates social rating points for each person. Further, depending
on the number of points, it is determined how accessible different
areas of life can be. For example, education, buying tickets for
transport, hotel accommodation. From January 1 of this year, every
resident of the PRC will have a base 1000 points assigned by the
state. Further, a person has to increase or decrease them.
Wang Wei is a former businessman. It so happened that a disgruntled
client sued him. To settle the case peacefully, the judge offered to
pay a penalty to the client. Wang Wei refused and thus lost his
trust as a reliable partner. He is now blacklisted with a very low
rating. Active informers come to the aid of the authorities. Zhuo
Aimin is a professional snitch. She always has a notebook at hand,
where she writes down in detail everything that seemed strange to
her or, on the contrary, deserving of approval.
Tight control permeates privacy life. Punishment in the form of a
rating downgrade threatens for insufficient assistance, for example,
to elderly parents. A person is deprived of vital points for inactive
participation in public communist affairs or an idle lifestyle. While
the entire world is still trying to study and analyze the experience
of the Chinese social and digital revolution, Microsoft is preparing
to step even further beyond the bounds of human morality. Recently,
the computer giant announced the creation of digital copies of
deceased people in the form of virtual interlocutors. The developers
claim that it will be possible to recreate the voice, appearance and
even the character of the deceased. In the future, the creation of
robots, complete copies of humans, is not excluded. And in this
sense, an episode of the famous series about robots replacing
deceased relatives and friends no longer seems like fantasy.