{"id":87849,"date":"2019-02-18T01:23:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T09:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/the-complex-reality-of-chinas-social-credit-system-hi-tech-dystopian-plot-or-low-key-incentive-scheme"},"modified":"2019-02-18T01:23:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T09:23:00","slug":"the-complex-reality-of-chinas-social-credit-system-hi-tech-dystopian-plot-or-low-key-incentive-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/the-complex-reality-of-chinas-social-credit-system-hi-tech-dystopian-plot-or-low-key-incentive-scheme","title":{"rendered":"The complex reality of China\u2019s social credit system: hi-tech dystopian plot or low-key incentive scheme?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-complex-reality-of-chinas-social-credit-system-hi-tech-dystopian-plot-or-low-key-incentive-scheme3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But as the Chinese authorities embrace new information technology to monitor, manage and control the public like never before, the prospect of a sweeping social credit system has raised alarm around the world, especially with the ever-tightening grip on civil society, rights activism and religion.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A dozen or so cities are test beds for carrot-and-stick programmes to encourage businesses and individuals to comply with existing rules. The schemes have been criticised as Orwellian, but experience varies for those on the ground.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/2185303\/hi-tech-dystopia-or-low-key-incentive-scheme-complex-reality\">https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/2185303\/hi-...ex-reality<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But as the Chinese authorities embrace new information technology to monitor, manage and control the public like never before, the prospect of a sweeping social credit system has raised alarm around the world, especially with the ever-tightening grip on civil society, rights activism and religion. A dozen or so cities are test beds for carrot-and-stick [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87849","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}