How Does China's Social Credit System Work?

02/26/23 • 19 min

China bans citizens with bad "social credit scores" from purchasing plane tickets, sending their children to certain schools, and more. So how does the system work - and how far does the blacklist go?

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Transcript

Have a vague idea that China’s social credit system is bad, but don’t really know much past that? Join the club!

The idea that China assigns citizens scores based on social behavior – ranging from volunteering to jaywalking – has sparked fears of an Orwellian dystopia. But how does the system actually work? And is it really as bad as it sounds?

To find out, I pulled primary source documents from China and poured over dozens of repo