China has banned in 2018 to more than 20 million cases, people who travel by train or plane. The reason: people have had a bad social points account.

evade taxes, a fine is not timely or drugs will be caught to pay for This and similar Offences have not in China, not only are the legal consequences. Increasingly Concerned, will be deducted points from their virtual social points account. And who has too bad a points account is no longer allowed to travel under certain circumstances. This is true for the domestic and for travelling abroad.

in 2018, refused to allow China’s state and party leadership in about 17.5 million cases, people travel by plane. Almost 5.5 million travelers were no train Tickets to buy. This is a Report of the competent social credit information centre.

people to educate better behavior

This de facto restrictions on the freedom of movement should scare you and the people in China to educate the to better behavior. According to the Chinese state media reported in the past few days, proud and very positive about the Numbers.

You’ve made “great progress” in the construction of social credit system, wrote the newspaper “Global Times”. The punitive measures had already been to so literally “dishonest agents” in China.

social points Sytem for around 1.3 billion Chinese

The state and party leadership has been working for years on a comprehensive social points System for all of the approximately 1.3 billion Chinese. The state Surveillance of the people has enormously increased: The authorities systematically collect communications, motion, and payment data.

in China, there is no separation of powers and no rule of law can lead the state to the various data relatively easily and evaluate it. Human rights groups criticize the System. The US government calls China’s social credit system is an “Orwellian System”, with the state controlling virtually every facet of human life.

China’s social credit Ranking: train – and-fly for millions of people
Steffen root, ARD Shanghai
03.03.2019 08:49 PM

Download the audio file

We offer this Audio in the following formats for Download:

mp3 Ogg Vorbis

note: , If the audio file is not saved when you Click automatically, you can select click with the right mouse button and “save target as…”.

China: On the path to total Surveillance, 20.05.2018 China’s social credit Ranking: train – and-fly for millions of people, Steffen root, ARD Shanghai |audio Atlas |China |Beijing your opinion – meta.tagesschau.de

4 comments for message

the Latest comment by ‘OlliH’ on 03.03.2019 10:52 PM

Bad example China

in China, There are no separation of powers, and thus, in fact, no rule of law. Each and every action of the citizen is being spied on. China is in this relationship as a people granted Land in the world is the negative example for human rights….

view All the comments or add your own comment. Phrases of the message: China Surveillance

correspondent