The unwritten rule of a socialist or communist government is that it will fail, those in power will blame other people, and they will clamp down on the individual liberties of the governed to keep them from choosing another system.
Todd Nettleton of Voice of the Martyrs says one of the ways China has managed that rule is through what's called a social credit system.
“The social credit score that every Chinese citizen is assigned factors in, essentially, how useful are you to the Communist Party, how cooperative are you with the Communist Party,” Nettleton says.
Stanford University published an assessment of China’s national model for their social credit system. According to them, officials documents reveal the social credit systems China uses are “designed to augment social governance by promoting order, encouraging 'civilized' behavior, and expanding government oversight where legal tools fall short.”
The national model, dated back to 2019, has 389 rules, only 124 reward what is considered good behavior while 265 punish so-called bad behavior.
“What happens is then sometimes you can't access your bank account, or you can't get permission to travel, or maybe you're dismissed from your job,” Nettleton says.
He says AI is giving the Chinese Communist Party a stranglehold on their citizens.
“There is something like half a billion surveillance cameras in China. They say they want to be able to identify and locate anybody on Chinese soil in three seconds,” Nettleton says.
Socialism is destined to fail as well in New York City, Seattle, and the federal government if Democrats are allowed to push the experiment that far. Nettleton says the tools are already falling into place to clamp down on U.S. citizens’ individual liberty and freedom when that happens.
“Currency, electronic, digital, digital transactions, the fact that we carry a microphone with us everywhere we go, which also has GPS tracking in it — it is something that we should be paying attention to,” Nettleton says.
