{"id":87024,"date":"2019-01-25T03:22:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T11:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/china-starts-debt-shaming-new-app-warns-users-if-they-are-walking-near-someone-in-debt"},"modified":"2019-01-25T03:22:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T11:22:33","slug":"china-starts-debt-shaming-new-app-warns-users-if-they-are-walking-near-someone-in-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/china-starts-debt-shaming-new-app-warns-users-if-they-are-walking-near-someone-in-debt","title":{"rendered":"China Starts \u201cDebt Shaming\u201d: New App Warns Users If They Are Walking Near Someone In Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-starts-debt-shaming-new-app-warns-users-if-they-are-walking-near-someone-in-debt3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paper.li\/e-1437691924#\/\">https:\/\/paper.li\/e-1437691924#\/<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Whether the app reveals the debtors\u2019 names or photos is unknown, nor does <em>China Daily<\/em> mention how much money is owed or to whom \u2014 but according to paper the app allows people to \u201cwhistle-blow on debtors capable of paying their debts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a part of our measures to enforce our rulings and create a socially credible environment,\u201d said a spokesman for the Higher People\u2019s Court of Hebei \u2014 which is behind the app.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cmap of deadbeat debtors\u201d is yet the latest in China\u2019s push towards a shame-based \u201csocial credit score\u201d system which has already been deployed in several parts of the country. According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/zhengce.beijing.gov.cn\/library\/192\/33\/50\/438650\/1571810\/index.html\">November report<\/a>, Beijing has an ambitious plan to control China\u2019s citizens through a system of social scoring that punishes behavior it does not approve.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-01-22\/china-starts-debt-shaming-new-app-warns-users-if-they-are-walking-near-someone-debt\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019&#45;01&#45;22\/china-star...meone-debt<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/paper.li\/e-1437691924#\/ Whether the app reveals the debtors\u2019 names or photos is unknown, nor does China Daily mention how much money is owed or to whom \u2014 but according to paper the app allows people to \u201cwhistle-blow on debtors capable of paying their debts.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s a part of our measures to enforce our rulings and create [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}