The Truth About China's Social Credit System

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  • @PolyMatter
    @PolyMatter  10 месяцев назад +182

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    • @tgreinpersonal
      @tgreinpersonal 10 месяцев назад +2

      Unless if you didn't see it earlier.

    • @mrdrzebraman694
      @mrdrzebraman694 10 месяцев назад +1

      China is so Based

    • @didyoumissedmegobareatersk2204
      @didyoumissedmegobareatersk2204 10 месяцев назад +1

      But Many of So called China Experts Said it is real you must be a wumao take 50 cent😂😂

    • @didyoumissedmegobareatersk2204
      @didyoumissedmegobareatersk2204 10 месяцев назад +4

      Man About to loose loads of china expert Guys after they watch this video

    • @Flylykou
      @Flylykou 10 месяцев назад +11

      Man why do you make ads for skillshare they literally have a 1 star rating on trustpilot and are a scam please don't fall for it
      I love your videos but don't sell your soul

  • @teoengchin
    @teoengchin 10 месяцев назад +8886

    So you're saying all those times I praised President Xi in front of my made in China coffee machine didnt increase my Social Credit score?

    • @jonseilim4321
      @jonseilim4321 10 месяцев назад +642

      Only works on those boba tea machines my lad

    • @mohamadizzuddin7068
      @mohamadizzuddin7068 10 месяцев назад +77

      If u buy kuerig.. it manufacture in malaysia..

    • @me0101001000
      @me0101001000 10 месяцев назад +275

      Years of academy training wasted LMAO

    • @gigachad7153
      @gigachad7153 10 месяцев назад +83

      The only way to increase it is by listening to Red Sun In The Sky as many times as possible, which btw, I don't mind at all.

    • @Joe_C.
      @Joe_C. 10 месяцев назад +10

      😅😁

  • @johnsonwongcs
    @johnsonwongcs 10 месяцев назад +1220

    Man, as a translator, in particular Chinese-to-English translator, I have translated many such documents, and let me tell you, nothing said in this video are exaggerations. Those documents, especially the government issued ones, are so empty they might as well be made of air...

    • @neanda
      @neanda 10 месяцев назад +1

      there are so many holes in this:
      1), he's not referencing any sources,
      2), he's using outliers and exceptions to be the big picture (just like those you're claiming to demystify),
      3) he's promoting a known scam, skillshare (so you either can't research well, or you're easily bought, which leads me to...
      4) how much does it cost for him choose sides rather than be objective and report objectively?
      and 5) he'll delete this comment, and that just adds to the misinformation he purports to oppose.
      I'm not and any ones side, except the side of truth and against people who gloss their reports as truth, especially in this day and and upcoming age. bye. i'm unsubbing from this obvious shill channel
      all the chinese commenters on here have to state that they are chinese, and speak with such immaculate english? even getting the oxford commas, and the correct word cases.
      And they have such obvious chinese usernames? this whole video is a shill, and so are these 'commenters'. Just look at the comments.
      This video is trying to normalise is by just saying it’s nothing to worry about, it’s all good. It’s quite horrible what he’s doing

    • @newoether7877
      @newoether7877 10 месяцев назад +26

      Indeed. Totally agree.

    • @deathdoor
      @deathdoor 10 месяцев назад +57

      I think most government documents in most countries are hard to understand.

    • @pyropulseIXXI
      @pyropulseIXXI 10 месяцев назад

      This his hilarious; every single comment is spreading CCP propaganda; PolyMatter is compromised. The CCP literally pays good money to spread their propaganda, and various RUclipsrs have proof of being contacted by them to spread these scripts. And all the comments are flooding the same thing. Not a single person is even being skeptical of this

    • @qikaigao3991
      @qikaigao3991 10 месяцев назад +26

      I don't even understand the words used in my tenancy agreement for my rental

  • @CryMoarZ
    @CryMoarZ 4 месяца назад +61

    As a European living in China, this is so true. When I arrived, I didn't dare to cross a red light. After some weeks, you would cross red lights often. And yes, when I would ask Chinese locals about this system, I would first need to explain the whole thing....

    • @pass3d
      @pass3d 4 месяца назад +1

      主要是BBC/NYT/WSJ...有语言优势,具有很大的话语权。中国有个成语叫”三人成虎“。

    • @coconut-gx4gj
      @coconut-gx4gj 4 месяца назад +16

      As a Chinese living in Europe, I need to explain one false lies to people every day that do not exis T at all. The most painful thing is that people don't want to believe me and think I'm crazy.

    • @StarsManny
      @StarsManny 4 месяца назад

      Which part of Europe are you from?

    • @jimbojimbo6873
      @jimbojimbo6873 Месяц назад

      China

    • @MM-vb9ze
      @MM-vb9ze 7 дней назад

      'The Plan To Subjugate Humanity Revolves Around Digital ID & Social Credit Systems' ruclips.net/video/nBD0nNerPlE/видео.html

  • @randomfunnystuff6378
    @randomfunnystuff6378 10 месяцев назад +151

    It's hilarious that when I heard the score range from 350 to 950, the first thing that came to my mind was Alipay's Sesame Credit. It's like a "bank" that was created to determine how much money they can lend you, hence the establishment of a scoring system. It's basically like "upload your property certificate and get +25 points," "failure to repay on time -10 points," and you can cancel this credit rating at any time. Almost all internet companies want to lend money to users, so now there are many so-called scoring systems, such as WeChat Credit, Didi Credit, JD Credit... And it's really hilarious how Western media portrays this as the so-called "social credit"

    • @iouvxz
      @iouvxz 9 месяцев назад +16

      Reading comments from people don't understand Chinese on western social media ,
      and reading comments from people only understand Chinese on Chinese social media , are both fun .

    • @RazorM97
      @RazorM97 9 месяцев назад +2

      bing chilling

    • @pascallaw5909
      @pascallaw5909 8 месяцев назад

      @@RazorM97 hahaha I know that meme

    • @zhiyuechen555
      @zhiyuechen555 4 месяца назад

      @@iouvxzhhhhh true bro

    • @nmsl4133
      @nmsl4133 4 месяца назад

      Truth doesn’t matter to them. All they care about is utilizing every opportunity possible to churn out more anti-China propaganda which always works well among imbeciles.

  • @Syuvinya
    @Syuvinya 10 месяцев назад +2575

    As a Chinese person, I can confirm that this is an accurate and objective report on the Chinese social credit systems. (Except for the all accounts on all Chinese websites require real-name registration part. All registered games in China require the user to provide their real name and ID card to verify that they are over 18 for unrestricted access, but not all websites. Chinese games don't have a grading system so even something as inoffensive as a match-3 game would be restricted to 18+).
    (Btw you can actually use the names and ID cards of the debtors blacklisted by the court to sign up to games. This is some really big brain move from the CCP.)
    (This comment has been heavily edited to answer some questions in the replies)

    • @iCore7Gaming
      @iCore7Gaming 10 месяцев назад +69

      that is real messed up

    • @aoh4905
      @aoh4905 10 месяцев назад +22

      so strict

    • @kirkrotger9208
      @kirkrotger9208 10 месяцев назад +223

      @DanDeMan It's messed up that kids can't play games meant for adults?

    • @0xBasedChang
      @0xBasedChang 10 месяцев назад +156

      @@aoh4905 it's the same in south korea and many other asian countries

    • @huy1k995
      @huy1k995 10 месяцев назад +36

      Oh and some games have time limit built in so if you plays for long enough you don't gain anything from the game and too long they will kick you out of the game and put a cooldown period as well.

  • @zhenzhenzhang
    @zhenzhenzhang 10 месяцев назад +1041

    As a Chinese person, I literally never heard of "social credit" other than on foreign memes. Really great, unbiased, educational video.

    • @cyncynshop
      @cyncynshop 10 месяцев назад +13

      What do you mean? I wasn't able to get a video game rental because I need 700 social credit score to borrow it without a hefty security fee.
      Edit: I'm just curious because, social credit, sesame credit and that like is very prevalent if you have an online wallet, which everyone does in the city.
      It's kinda hard to not heard of it because JD shopping app there's "GET THIS CHEAP IF YOU HAVE XXX SOCIAL CREDIT" everywhere.

    • @neanda
      @neanda 10 месяцев назад +53

      as a chinese.
      there are so many holes in this:
      1), he's not referencing any sources,
      2), he's using outliers and exceptions to be the big picture (just like those you're claiming to demystify),
      3) he's promoting a known scam, skillshare (so you either can't research well, or you're easily bought, which leads me to...
      4) how much does it cost for him choose sides rather than be objective and report objectively?
      and 5) he'll delete this comment, and that just adds to the misinformation he purports to oppose.
      I'm not and any ones side, except the side of truth and against people who gloss their reports as truth, especially in this day and and upcoming age. bye. i'm unsubbing from this obvious shill channel
      all the chinese commenters on here have to state that they are chinese, and speak with such immaculate english? even getting the oxford commas, and the correct word cases.
      And they have such obvious chinese usernames? this whole video is a shill, and so are these 'commenters'. Just look at the comments.
      This video is trying to normalise is by just saying it’s nothing to worry about, it’s all good. It’s quite horrible what he’s doing

    • @neanda
      @neanda 10 месяцев назад

      why are all the chinese commenters on here have to state that they are chinese, and speak with such immaculate english? even getting the oxford commas, and the correct word cases. 🤣 and why do you have such obvious chinese usernames? this whole video is a shill, and so are these 'commenters'.

    • @davidgil6485
      @davidgil6485 10 месяцев назад +153

      ​@@neanda sources are in a link in the description

    • @joni4867
      @joni4867 10 месяцев назад +127

      @@neandabroooo please stop copy pasting the same blatantly incorrect comment over and over

  • @MrHunick
    @MrHunick 10 месяцев назад +376

    Thank you for making this video. As a Chinese person living in Europe, sometimes people ask me about this. It is hard to explain, and I don't want to spend a lot time explaining something that I don't even know very well and telling them a lot of what they heard were not factual. Some people get offended when you tell them what they think is true is actually not. I just tell them it is not nationally implemented, and I don't know much about it as I lived did not have it. Still some Europeans question me on the fact whether it is nationally implemented. It gets so annoying.

    • @kd_w4110
      @kd_w4110 10 месяцев назад

      Don't even try, most people will still believe the media, even if you explain to them very clearly.

    • @edward3190
      @edward3190 10 месяцев назад

      Those uneducated brainwashed narrow-minded Europeans can very annoying.

    • @RT-qd8yl
      @RT-qd8yl 7 месяцев назад +1

      Can you explain cha bu duo

    • @p382742937423y4
      @p382742937423y4 6 месяцев назад +1

      People are afraid of chinese government measures. They seem so strong and coercive to the people, we are afraid of it.

    • @NazriB
      @NazriB 5 месяцев назад +1

      Lies again? Cold Storage USD SGD

  • @TheAmazingCowpig
    @TheAmazingCowpig 10 месяцев назад +692

    Real informative, good work here. The idea of the "hyper-advanced dystopian social credit system" always seemed a little suspect to me, and there's no doubt in my mind that some governments in this world would love to implement that, but it seems reasonable that any current implementation is marred by general "people are people" and beaucratic incompetence.

    • @erozionzeall6371
      @erozionzeall6371 10 месяцев назад

      Are you gonna stop automatically believing bullshit propaganda put out by the West from now on?

    • @NarasimhaDiyasena
      @NarasimhaDiyasena 10 месяцев назад

      The WEF seeks to establish the dystopia under the guise of Climate Change. Carbon Credits are the rebrand of Social Credit. They are Watermelons, Green (‘Environmentalists’) on the outside, and Red (Communist) on the inside.

    • @neanda
      @neanda 10 месяцев назад

      there are so many holes in this:
      1), he's not referencing any sources,
      2), he's using outliers and exceptions to be the big picture (just like those you're claiming to demystify),
      3) he's promoting a known scam, skillshare (so you either can't research well, or you're easily bought, which leads me to...
      4) how much does it cost for him choose sides rather than be objective and report objectively?
      and 5) he'll delete this comment, and that just adds to the misinformation he purports to oppose.
      I'm not and any ones side, except the side of truth and against people who gloss their reports as truth, especially in this day and and upcoming age. bye. i'm unsubbing from this obvious shill channel

    • @Pushing_Pixels
      @Pushing_Pixels 10 месяцев назад +5

      @@peterseth3296 All that stuff is handled by private companies, not the government.

    • @niello5944
      @niello5944 10 месяцев назад +7

      What are you talking about, it's already dystopian. The real problem that's not impeded by any breaucratic incompetence is using a few monolithic numbers to explicitly decide everything about a person and a lack of privacy that's even more outrageous than a lot of other places in the world.

  • @ArchOfWinter
    @ArchOfWinter 10 месяцев назад +487

    The take away from this video isn't about the social credit system, is how skeptical we should be of how government and company are portrayed as by news media and by official statement.
    Every major powers (both political and private companies) on the planet thrive off of these inaccurate exaggeration of capabilities. Saying nothing helps builds their own reputation while retorting will make themselves look the the victim of misinformation attacks and bullying. A win win in either case. In the case of social credit, Beijing not saying anything to discredits the exaggeration help reinforce their might and how sophisticated their techs are to the internationally community, but if they retort, they can play victim of how the US is slandering their reputation to appease domestically to further villainize the West.

    • @Imbalanxd
      @Imbalanxd 10 месяцев назад +30

      It would probably be quite funny to put that negative opinion of China graph next to a graph of china's proximity to the US in GDP

    • @klaustrussel
      @klaustrussel 10 месяцев назад +51

      We are swimming in propaganda 365 days of the year

    • @DixyBixy
      @DixyBixy 10 месяцев назад +22

      and all of those would be prevented if the west did not spread the misinformation about the social credit system at the first time right?

    • @ArawnOfAnnwn
      @ArawnOfAnnwn 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@klaustrussel The most widespread propaganda isn't really propaganda as people typically think of that. Rather than govts. controlling the media and dictating the narrative, the media itself does 'propanganda' for its own reasons. What reason, you ask? Pandering. The US govt. doesn't need to tell US media to villainize China, they'll do it themselves cos they can see that their audience loves it. Even non-mainstream media like YT content creators are susceptible to the same temptations. It's just good business to tell people what they like to hear. The same applies to the media everywhere else, democracy or autocracy.

    • @NeostormXLMAX
      @NeostormXLMAX 10 месяцев назад +1

      Americans are just really stupid and literally believe every single thing the government says😂😂😂😂
      Yeomni park being sponsored by neocons saying the most insanely inconsistent and non probable things like pushing 1000 ton trains daily 😂😂😂

  • @TheDysartes
    @TheDysartes 10 месяцев назад +166

    I've spoken with family members in China about this and they've said they way the West was presenting it was a load of old rubbish. They said there is a credit scoring system, but when they explained it to it sounded a lot like the credit score system we have in the UK. It's based around borrowing like it is in the west, your score goes up or down based on your ability to pay back borrowing.
    The way China works, is that new laws, ideas etc are tested in a few regions to see if they work, if they're a failure then it's abandoned, if there are issues then those issues are addressed. A new law or idea isn't rolled out across the rest of the country until it's deemed workable, if it isn't then it's either abandoned or taken back to the drawing board.

    • @Imbalanxd
      @Imbalanxd 10 месяцев назад +22

      so throw it with the debt trap diplomacy myth and file under things americans dont want to be informed about

    • @DhrubajyotiRaja01
      @DhrubajyotiRaja01 10 месяцев назад +19

      *Your CCP Credit Score has increased. 10 CNY is added into your bank account* .

    • @0816M3RC
      @0816M3RC 10 месяцев назад

      The Chinese are indeed a genocidal people but the Social Credit System always seemed ridiculous.

    • @somnia3423
      @somnia3423 10 месяцев назад

      What is the social aspect about it?

    • @iivin4233
      @iivin4233 10 месяцев назад +10

      @@Imbalanxd So what do you call it when you give a loan to someone you know can't pay it back and later use it to wrench sovereignty concessions from them?
      Granted individuals don't operate under the same concept of sovereignty that nations do. It's not a perfect metaphor.

  • @sable2146
    @sable2146 10 месяцев назад +93

    US Media: China's credit score will impact people's ability to work, rent, or even live!!!
    Meanwhile in 1980's US: Three privately owned corporations: "Hold our beers"

    • @neanda
      @neanda 10 месяцев назад

      there are so many holes in this:
      1), he's not referencing any sources,
      2), he's using outliers and exceptions to be the big picture (just like those you're claiming to demystify),
      3) he's promoting a known scam, skillshare (so you either can't research well, or you're easily bought, which leads me to...
      4) how much does it cost for him choose sides rather than be objective and report objectively?
      and 5) he'll delete this comment, and that just adds to the misinformation he purports to oppose.
      I'm not and any ones side, except the side of truth and against people who gloss their reports as truth, especially in this day and and upcoming age. bye. i'm unsubbing from this obvious shill channel
      all the chinese commenters on here have to state that they are chinese, and speak with such immaculate english? even getting the oxford commas, and the correct word cases.
      And they have such obvious chinese usernames? this whole video is a shill, and so are these 'commenters'. Just look at the comments.
      This video is trying to normalise is by just saying it’s nothing to worry about, it’s all good. It’s quite horrible what he’s doing

    • @pyropulseIXXI
      @pyropulseIXXI 10 месяцев назад

      The system in the US is literally nothing compared to the Chinese system; why the mass spreading of propaganda in favor of the Chinese system?
      The system in the US has to do with people voluntarily loaning you money; if someone doesn't pay their bills, no shit no one is going to lend you money, as that is a risk. If you have cash, you aren't restricted with anything in the US
      Nice strawman though; pretty pathetic on your part

  • @ambition112
    @ambition112 8 месяцев назад +167

    0:00: 📰 The emergence of China's social credit system was exaggerated and distorted by Western media, leading to widespread misconceptions and fears.
    3:25: ⚠ The Chinese social credit system is not as Orwellian as portrayed, but it does exist and is part of a broader context of government control.
    8:58: 📝 The Chinese government implemented a policy outline called 'social credit' which aimed to encourage spending and promote trust in society.
    10:14: 📚 The Chinese government implemented a 'reputation society' to address moral failure and lack of trust, but the implementation was chaotic and impractical.
    13:54: 🔍 The concept of social credit in China is often misunderstood and misrepresented by the media.
    17:45: 🔍 The complexity of governing a large population and the use of buzzwords in China's social credit system
    20:05: 🤔 China's claims about 'big data' and 'machine learning' should be approached with skepticism.
    Recap by Tammy AI

    • @kidsharon5573
      @kidsharon5573 8 месяцев назад

      China's Social Credit System was built to help dictator Xi to imprison any person that he doesn't like under the excuse of bad social credit score.

    • @macseigel7295
      @macseigel7295 Месяц назад +1

      All of these summaries are wrong, and many of them are antithetical to the actual points made in the video.

  • @bigbadlara5304
    @bigbadlara5304 10 месяцев назад +2826

    Just absolutely love this. We need to criticize things but only if it's fair criticism.

    • @skp8748
      @skp8748 10 месяцев назад

      Do you think they sit around and indignantly admonish the US for subjecting all its citizens to MK ultra or some other silly conspiracy in China.
      They don't even care about the US's ACTUAL crimes against its citizens like assassinating them overseas for a nonviolent crime they havent even been charged for let alone found guilty of in a court of their peers as per the US constitution. It gets unbelievably worse EVEN after UNCONSTITUTIONALLY assasinating this US citizen via an drone strike which was illegal since it was in foreign country we were neither at war with or granted permission by we ACTUALLY decided to target and murdering the dead mans US born children. Obamas chief of staff was quoted saying the teenage boy born in the US and killed by on Obamas orders less than a month after his dad was shouldve had better father. Then Trump comes into office saying its not enough to target terrorists but that their families should also be killed less than 3 months as president the last child of this family an 8 year old US citizen was assassinated on Trumps orders following an Obama made plan. 😂
      But let's cry about what China a nation we have no authority over is doing because its so much more pertinent than what is happening to us by our elected officials... senile copium.

    • @Cagrst
      @Cagrst 10 месяцев назад +97

      Yeah PolyMatter is the best. Actual critical analysis of a subject, not just parroting other parrots.

    • @Random_dud31
      @Random_dud31 10 месяцев назад +16

      ​@First name Last name its fine to downplay the criticism, but they have to back it with facts. But as you said, when they start using hate speech or patriotism or like, then its a lost cause

    • @tunahxushi4669
      @tunahxushi4669 10 месяцев назад +1

      In China if you voluntarily allow CCP to live harvest your organs your credit score goes up 1000 points...

    • @bigbadlara5304
      @bigbadlara5304 10 месяцев назад +4

      @@user-ts5lz2fc7f whenever someone says I use hate speech to me. I end the conversation immediatly. Nothing to gain there.

  • @noot2981
    @noot2981 10 месяцев назад +773

    As someone who works in data, I've always been sceptical of this SCS. It's so hard to link data together in a comprehensible, not to mention correct way, I couldn't imagine them being that far ahead than my western country in data infrastructure.
    Very nice and comprehensive summary of the "system".

    • @ChibiKeruchan
      @ChibiKeruchan 10 месяцев назад +10

      just you wait around 15yrs and AI will do it

    • @Joe_C.
      @Joe_C. 10 месяцев назад +46

      Thing is... Do they really care about how 'accurate' it is, as long as they have a system overlording the majority of the population that the people ascribe to or even fear

    • @ericbashir7275
      @ericbashir7275 10 месяцев назад +33

      I don’t think it’s as hard as you make it seem. You could start with a handful of government agencies and spread from there. The US is able to do this with the credit score, which is connected across most of your financial dealings. It can’t be that hard in a police where there’s only one voice.

    • @AdverseOpinion
      @AdverseOpinion 10 месяцев назад +3

      That's not the point, what's the threat of losing social credit that keeps people in control.

    • @ricardokowalski1579
      @ricardokowalski1579 10 месяцев назад +23

      Accuracy is not a requirement. Fear is the metric. Randomness and "errors" only help that goal
      The STASI did this without any computers, decades ago. It can be be done, it is really easy to do.

  • @annache250
    @annache250 10 месяцев назад +476

    As an American who is confused on how dysfunctional US politics are, I’m curious if you’d be interested in covering the Political industry theory created by Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter. Since you’ve exposed to so many westerners like myself that China’s political system is more complicated than the sensationalist media would have us think, maybe you could shine a light on American politics particularly the two-party system.

    • @bobSeigar
      @bobSeigar 10 месяцев назад +73

      Simple. America is one party, two teams.

    • @bigglesworth9456
      @bigglesworth9456 10 месяцев назад

      America's system is based on class warfare. Rich versus everyone else.

    • @armandoventura9043
      @armandoventura9043 10 месяцев назад +33

      The dysfunctional politics of the US is due to the fact that the entire government is highly influenced by the nacional companies, making all politics revolve around the wishes of businessmen and politicians.
      It's simple but destructive in the long run

    • @andriod8014
      @andriod8014 10 месяцев назад +34

      As someone whose parents came from a socialist country with a tyrannical leader, US is by far away from dysfunctional political system. If you think current US politics sucks wait until you see what happening in other countries.

    • @dumbname1961
      @dumbname1961 10 месяцев назад

      @Anne Che how to tell you are a chinese psyop without telling us you're a wumao. Based on how round about way you said im taking it that you're already disillusioned with china but have to write the comment cuz u got gun pointed at your head.
      The things is if you want to watch exposure on how "dysfuntional" US government is.... you just need to google it and hundreds of independent respectable journalists will come out and show you thousands of videos ranging from just exposing to outright smearing it. But funny how you guys only appear on videos that that paint china in smallest negative lights. But i guess tahts a job for u.

  • @rosaria8384
    @rosaria8384 10 месяцев назад +329

    I've been super skeptical about this system tbh. Too many memes keep making references to this supposed Orwellian system, so I started becoming curious. Glad that this video exists.

    • @ac1455
      @ac1455 10 месяцев назад

      If such a system did exist, China would already have overtaken the world as they’d have the most advanced ML algorithms known to man.

    • @benjammin9745
      @benjammin9745 10 месяцев назад

      If you weren't skeptical you should have your head examined

    • @skp8748
      @skp8748 10 месяцев назад

      I was living in dalian telling friends back home that they were actually being crazy... they wholeheartedly believed I was lying out of fear or I was being bribed... these were friends I'd known all my life.
      Yellow peril much like war on terrorism or Mccarthyism is dangerous jingoistic racist mass hysteria. They believed the story because they WANTED to believe it

    • @mariusvanc
      @mariusvanc 10 месяцев назад

      I always treated it is a meme and joke, as in, you do something and someone says "that's -50 social credit points comrade". Not for a second do I believe anyone in China has the technical capability to collect, combine and analyze this kind of data, given that outside of a small portion of people in 1st tier cities, the large majority of the country is at a corrupt developing 3rd world level, and you're more likely to be using a wood stove than have access to the internet.

    • @xdragus
      @xdragus 10 месяцев назад +64

      How else will I get my easy karma upvotes on Reddit?

  • @tengchen7360
    @tengchen7360 10 месяцев назад +442

    As a chinese I can see how much effort Polymatter has taken to investigate this topic.
    Whenever we see a news or stand-up comedy making jokes about social credit system it always make us laugh too, because we see how absurd this is.
    As an system engineer, I can clearly see how complex this system is if it ever exists. For example, If you want to use survillian cameras to identify a person who runs in red light on the street, you'll need HD cameras at every street corner with really advanced face recognition AI that can work even in bad weathers. And this is only for one scenario.
    If CCP really manage to realize that, I will be convinced that China has the most advanced technologies and the most talented people around the world, and the US or any other countries connot even compete with China anymore. This is apparently not the case.

    • @patriciaboivin66
      @patriciaboivin66 10 месяцев назад +12

      How much they pain you ?

    • @Joe--
      @Joe-- 10 месяцев назад +14

      Seem to be denying that this system is fundamentally unethical?

    • @gavros9636
      @gavros9636 10 месяцев назад

      @@Joe-- The CCP doesn't care about ethics?

    • @tengchen7360
      @tengchen7360 10 месяцев назад +127

      @@Joe-- Bro here's my understanding.
      We might have different views about CCP's ethicity, but if any government can develop such an advanced tech that monitors and rates billions of people, this technology can also be applied in multiple other fields to strengthen the country.
      Let's take the survillian camera for example. Its relevant technology includes AI face/object identification, internet of things and massive database management. These technologies can boost production automation (to increase industrial productivity for civil and military products), cyber attack (grabing massive information from other countries and to rapid analysis etc.).
      What I'm trying to say is, to construct such a social credit system, a country should have great developments in technologies, and these technologies can also be used in other fields which make the country Top 1 in industry, military and economy. If that's a evil country, there's nothing can stand in its way to conquer the world. Apparently China is still not that strong, so the imagination that such a system exists is just unrealistic.

    • @tengchen7360
      @tengchen7360 10 месяцев назад +68

      @@patriciaboivin66 I am not in pain at all, bro :)

  • @aier4220
    @aier4220 10 месяцев назад +34

    As a Chinese, never heard about the stoical credit system, but I heard about USA has a credit system with buying house and cars for financial and lease.

    • @ChakokkNo
      @ChakokkNo 3 месяца назад +1

      USA is always good at making fake news.

    • @guacre2675
      @guacre2675 2 месяца назад +2

      Yep. Banks determine how trustworthy you are for loans based on how reliably you pay them back on time.
      If you're irresponsible or don't have money, getting a loan for a house, car, or better credit card becomes more expensive. You can simply opt out, but most people participate. I think it kinda sucks, personally.

    • @Ty-dk2sj
      @Ty-dk2sj 2 месяца назад

      ​@@guacre2675It only really sucks for people who can't manage their money properly 😂

    • @royalsaiyanelite198
      @royalsaiyanelite198 Месяц назад

      Credit is a good system. People just need to learn how to positively impact their score

    • @stevek906
      @stevek906 19 дней назад +1

      Isn't this true everywhere? From the other comments here, it sounds like it is.
      Credit scoring is one situation where the banks have a strong motivation to be cooperative / sharing rather than competitive / secretive. If a creditor stiffs a bank, the bank wants to blacklist that creditor to the whole industry, and the other banks likewise want to know about it. The more interesting question would be, is there any place where this has NOT happened?

  • @jialaowai
    @jialaowai 10 месяцев назад +105

    Great video. So tired of hearing even "China experts" claim that there's a social credit system here, when anyone who's lived here knows it doesn't exist.

    • @bozzie_
      @bozzie_ 10 месяцев назад

      The reality of what China currently is under the CCP isn't much better.

    • @KnowL-oo5po
      @KnowL-oo5po 9 месяцев назад +1

      agi will be man's last invention

    • @pascallaw5909
      @pascallaw5909 8 месяцев назад +11

      as a Chinese I just take this as a meme and bing chilling with others haha but i don't know how many people from outside China actually take it seriously.

  • @funfsinn14
    @funfsinn14 10 месяцев назад +65

    I've lived in China since 2015 and this is one of the few explanations that does a good enough job of explaining the particular aspect and the sinophobic meme it's turned into.
    For all intents and purposes, social credit is just not a thing. Whether native or foreigner I've met literally nobody here who gives it much thought if any.

    • @BioTheHuman
      @BioTheHuman 9 месяцев назад +4

      It's not a thing because they weren't able to perfectly maintain and enforce it, but it's definitely a thing.
      You too say that "people don't care about it" which is different from saying "It doesn't exist"

    • @iouvxz
      @iouvxz 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@BioTheHuman it exists ,if you refuse to pay the loan you lent from the national bank ,but the government find out you do have money to pay it back ,
      and that's the only way you will get youself into trouble ,if you're bankrupt ,then you're fine .

    • @funfsinn14
      @funfsinn14 9 месяцев назад +10

      @@BioTheHuman well what i mean is, it doesn't exist. certainly not in the way outsiders like to imagine in any real way. it's something else and it's not ubiquitous or wide ranging for a variety of reasons. but it's not that strawman imagined fantasy ppl have in their minds when somebody says 'social credit score'.

    • @BioTheHuman
      @BioTheHuman 9 месяцев назад

      @@funfsinn14 I too joke about social credits knowing that it's not the "real thing", but first of all, that's how jokes work, and second, it's just a matter of time for it to become reality since China is clearly aiming to such control on its population

    • @funfsinn14
      @funfsinn14 9 месяцев назад +8

      @@BioTheHuman I've been living in China since '15 and have heard 'it's just around the corner' abt so many things whether it's SC or the coming collapse of their economy and system. So many predictions from ppl who don't know a thing about the place. Still waiting...

  • @dunnowy123
    @dunnowy123 10 месяцев назад +51

    I find your point about how the West perceives China vs. how CHINESE people perceive China as so interesting. I don't know if people actually interact with Chinese people all that often, but they're not the (for lack of a better term) rule loving, automatons people seem to imagine. In fact, I'd argue South (yes, South) Koreans and Japanese people (both countries I've visited and people I know here in North America) are more averse to breaking rules than Chinese people are.
    China, to many Chinese people, IS TOO UNREGULATED. There's too much lawlessness, there's too much corruption, and grift. A lot of Chinese people love bending and breaking rules if they perceive them as being not in their or their family or network's interest. Of course, a lot of Chinese people don't like this (or they, like all people, approve of themselves doing it but not others) and that's why a lot of them feel that strong authority is necessary to keep control of the country.

    • @My12Fav
      @My12Fav 10 месяцев назад

      💯 agree. I have many relatives living in China and my parents who are US citizens but still keep up with Chinese news say this is the number 1 difference b/w China and the West. It’s why my mom sends my cousin in China baby formula from the US. There are basically no regulations and even if there are, there’s zero trust from Chinese citizens that they will be upheld.

    • @ZhangtheGreat
      @ZhangtheGreat 10 месяцев назад

      So damn true. For a prime example, watch how citizens interact with authority figures when it inconveniences them. While some will cooperate, you're far more likely to see full-blown arguments between the two parties. This whole belief that the Chinese are fearful of authority is a lie; of the "big three" East Asian nations (China, Japan, and South Korea), the people of China are _most_ likely to get in an authority figure's face.

  • @TheTonyMcD
    @TheTonyMcD 10 месяцев назад +12

    This was an extremely well made documentary. I really liked how you were to tear down this big scary reputation that the Chinese government has, and show that they too are in fact human. That last line really resonated with me, "one side is primed to see China as ten feet tall and the other is incentivized to exaggerate its height."

  • @chongjunxiang3002
    @chongjunxiang3002 10 месяцев назад +19

    I go to subreddit such as china_irl so many time, where there is a lot of real PRC citizen with dissident opinion hangout. And they enjoy the SCS meme very much, because
    1. It seems like only English media are hysteric about this, so how about we play along with it.
    2. Nobody in China care, at all. Imagine if SCS is as real as media describe, the 内卷 (involutary toxic competitive) society of China will suddenly cause China to be the most volunteering society in the world, where everyone is donating blood everyday just to make sure they can be the first to get the train ticket in next Chinese New Year.

    • @user-sp6qn6we8d
      @user-sp6qn6we8d 4 месяца назад

      If you want to learn about the lives of Chinese people and the history of China before 1949 on the internet, you can go to Chinese websites such as "百度贴吧" and "Bilibili". Of course, if you want to know something related to politics, the information on these websites may be inaccurate because China has strict censorship on political and historical information after 1949.

  • @shinchan-F-urmom
    @shinchan-F-urmom 10 месяцев назад +117

    As a person who visited china many times, i absolutely LOVE this. Western media takes the most isolated and fucked up things and hypes up the threat to the point of a meme to defame china, as if 1.4 BILLION people are robots and half the population is watching them and "crediting" them.

    • @kd_w4110
      @kd_w4110 10 месяцев назад +34

      Western media also did this to Japan, when Japan were second largest economy in the world.

    • @XXMatt0040XX
      @XXMatt0040XX 10 месяцев назад

      Well when we're told about small religions being formed and their followers killed and jailed, see images of a single man standing in front of a tank, have a fucking balloon flown over the U.S., of course people, especially in the U.S. are going to believe it.

    • @hombreg1
      @hombreg1 10 месяцев назад

      Damn, I hadn't thought about Shin Chan in years. Loved that show as a kid.

    • @NeostormXLMAX
      @NeostormXLMAX 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@kd_w4110reminder that there is literally a donald trump interview where he said china was very strong and amazing for puting down the rebells in tiennanmin square, and in another interview trump talked about japan is a great demon that needs to be cut down so they dont take over the world 😂😂😂😂

    • @c_douglasdillion745
      @c_douglasdillion745 10 месяцев назад +1

      I think it goes beyond ALL this. Many Asian cultures, well before anything in the Modern World, rest on 'The Group.' Be it a State/town/Tribe, whatever, it's the Group first. In the West, we have often hailed the Individual. Although this has become less so in recent decades.
      While I have met Asian immigrants who also appear in sympathy for the Individual, there are plenty of Americans who see a greater loyalty to a Group. And, in fact, Modern Europe is far more 'Communal' than my taste. Here in the States, even recent years has seen the shift. The laws after 9/11 and now more recently ESG.
      Polly is right to point out, whatever dystopia the Chinese government is trying to do or not, the Credit Score is not really relevant. Further, we have plenty of those trappings right here and do so voluntarily...Big Tech/Social Media, Amazon, checking into a hotel (try it w/o a driver's license) even buying booze as a middle aged person, they can swipe your license. But...the divide between the Individual and the State (along with privacy and all that), is real among Americans.
      Why the Western, particularly US media jumped on this, it was fodder because it is a point of great internal disagreement. The two Camps are also strangely twisted on the abortion issue, where the 'Choice,' side, finds 'religion' for the Individual, but is 'Social Contract' Bound for every other aspect of our Individual lives.

  • @zebraimage
    @zebraimage 10 месяцев назад +65

    I'm a Chinese citizen living in China and I try to be a fair critic of CCP. There are a lot of people like me here. But bad reportings like this Social Credit bullshit from the west makes it really hard for us to convince our people that we need to be more open and we need freedom of press. it's frustrating. And it's not just western media, it's also their audiences. People in the west love this kind of boogie stories about China. They are automatically less skeptical with their media when it's about China. They don't hold the media accountable when it's about China. It's a vicious circle.

    • @nathanolson3135
      @nathanolson3135 9 месяцев назад +3

      Funny you are mentioning western media, I mean have you ever met Chinese media? 😏

    • @zebraimage
      @zebraimage 9 месяцев назад

      @@nathanolson3135 I'll quote my regular comment which got my social media accounts banned several times in China: There's no media in China whatsoever. They are all a part of the propaganda machine, every single one of them, when they can only report what they're allowed to report, be it good news or bad news.

    • @user-vu1nf3ky3y
      @user-vu1nf3ky3y 9 месяцев назад +8

      ​@@nathanolson3135we dislike ccp ,don't mean we like America

    • @user-mk3vh4cr9j
      @user-mk3vh4cr9j 8 месяцев назад

      its just the pot calling the kettle black; at least chinese ppl are generally skeptical about our bullsh!t media, unlike amerimutts who just love grabbing random fake news from their own bullsh!t mountain of journalism and think they are better than their asian counterparts@@nathanolson3135

    • @reaktioN
      @reaktioN 8 месяцев назад +1

      +20 social credits

  • @Pushing_Pixels
    @Pushing_Pixels 10 месяцев назад +65

    I remember thinking, at the time the story broke, that it seemed like such an impossibly complex and onerous system, and on a scale so large in a country like China, that there was no way a giant bureaucracy (or really a collection of giant bureaucracies) could pull it off. The technology just isn't there yet. China might be a one-party state, but it is not a monolithic government, as you point out. Co-ordinating something like what was described would be a monumental task, even without the technical barriers.

    • @amlyify
      @amlyify 10 месяцев назад +1

      The technology probably is there, it's just that sheer infrastructure costs would be immense

    • @asandax6
      @asandax6 10 месяцев назад +9

      The technology to do a social credit system is present. It requires a small fraction of social media infrastructure. Infact avery social media manages their own social credit system that they use to ban people but they'll never make it public.

    • @bodyloverz30
      @bodyloverz30 10 месяцев назад

      Oddly, Chairman Mao, managed to do much the same thing.

  • @mrmr446
    @mrmr446 10 месяцев назад +54

    That makes it sound to me as if the average Brit or American has more data points stored about them just that much of it is held by private companies and not the government. Logistically the SCS always seemed to be overhyped to me thanks for the explanation.

    • @neanda
      @neanda 10 месяцев назад

      there are so many holes in this:
      1), he's not referencing any sources,
      2), he's using outliers and exceptions to be the big picture (just like those you're claiming to demystify),
      3) he's promoting a known scam, skillshare (so you either can't research well, or you're easily bought, which leads me to...
      4) how much does it cost for him choose sides rather than be objective and report objectively?
      and 5) he'll delete this comment, and that just adds to the misinformation he purports to oppose.
      I'm not and any ones side, except the side of truth and against people who gloss their reports as truth, especially in this day and and upcoming age. bye. i'm unsubbing from this obvious shill channel
      all the chinese commenters on here have to state that they are chinese, and speak with such immaculate english? even getting the oxford commas, and the correct word cases.
      And they have such obvious chinese usernames? this whole video is a shill, and so are these 'commenters'. Just look at the comments.
      This video is trying to normalise is by just saying it’s nothing to worry about, it’s all good. It’s quite horrible what he’s doing

  • @jonseilim4321
    @jonseilim4321 10 месяцев назад +197

    "The American media's obsession with ratings and profit often compromises journalistic integrity and truth."
    - Amy Goodman

    • @DhrubajyotiRaja01
      @DhrubajyotiRaja01 10 месяцев назад +1

      *Said by an Asian who fled to America for Better life* .....

    • @BackwardOutofDusk
      @BackwardOutofDusk 10 месяцев назад +5

      The GOAT

    • @realShikha885
      @realShikha885 10 месяцев назад +2

      One baised journalist calling others baised, Haha

    • @realShikha885
      @realShikha885 10 месяцев назад +2

      Yup china Uncensored is very platform to about what's happening in PR China.

    • @Tmhy0
      @Tmhy0 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@realShikha885China uncensored is literally Falun gong propaganda.

  • @dekumutant
    @dekumutant 10 месяцев назад +11

    This was one of the best china videos i've watched in this platform. Incredible job. I have a bit of a hobby following what is going on in China and everyone even slightly interested should watch this. This video so elegantly goes beyond the topic and outlines exactly what makes china look so confusing outside in. The government is incentivised to be vague for their own deniability. That final quote was beautiful, "currently one side is primed to see china as 10 feet tall, and the other is incentivised to exaggerate its height"

    • @wenyichen5515
      @wenyichen5515 10 месяцев назад +1

      Poly matter really knows how to investigate fairly.

  • @xinbozhang7206
    @xinbozhang7206 10 месяцев назад +16

    I finally understand why when I comment on some videos, some people will reply to me and say, 'How much social credit score did you get today?' This is something that Chinese people have never heard of, but it is widely spread in the West.

    • @blugaledoh2669
      @blugaledoh2669 10 месяцев назад +1

      Lol😅

    • @Rex-ww4cw
      @Rex-ww4cw 5 месяцев назад +1

      That's all they can do when they lose an argument😂

  • @DavidGravesExists
    @DavidGravesExists 10 месяцев назад +113

    What's fascinating to me, having lived in both China and Taiwan, is how Taiwan does the exact same thing with it's vague, top-down directives that allow each layer of bureaucrats to wash their hands of responsibility for failures caused by local-level officials just basically making up shit as they go along in an attempt to interpret the vague directives (while also trying to pocket as much money for themselves as possible by creating further vague directives and initiatives that, surprise, always seem to funnel money into the pockets of those that create said initiatives). I guess some habits die hard.

    • @prplt
      @prplt 10 месяцев назад +2

      its vague not it's

    • @the80386
      @the80386 10 месяцев назад +31

      @DavidGravesExists - but you see David, it's ok when taiwan does it because it's a subordin...I mean 'ally'. we don't talk about any bad stuff our allies do but we thoroughly record all of it. we keep those evidence in reserve to be used later when allies don't play ball.

    • @user-qd4gf8hg8f
      @user-qd4gf8hg8f 10 месяцев назад +1

      Theres a difference, on Taiwan u can get whatever u want on ur pocket and nobody can do anything about it as long as ur party is on charge, even if its exposed by the media, nothing will happen. In China on the other hand they banned corruption after Xi was on charge and whoever tries to get money into their pocket will face heavy lifetime consequences, thats it if they find out about it

    • @NeostormXLMAX
      @NeostormXLMAX 10 месяцев назад +1

      The usa does this even more w😂

    • @NeostormXLMAX
      @NeostormXLMAX 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@user-qd4gf8hg8flmao the usa japan taiwan south korea france england and germany all have seized peoples assets whenever needed let me remind you julian assange is still in jail for journalism

  • @jonasdatlas4668
    @jonasdatlas4668 10 месяцев назад +46

    oh hey i was digging into this like a year ago for a presentation/paper, it's a *fascinating* mess

    • @me0101001000
      @me0101001000 10 месяцев назад

      Is it a paper that is meant to be published? If so, pls provide the DOI

  • @thudly999
    @thudly999 10 месяцев назад +96

    This was one of the most carefully constructed, balanced, intellectually polished discussions of this topic I have encountered. really helpful in calming hysteria and superb in driving useful discourse for further exploration. many thanks!

    • @neanda
      @neanda 10 месяцев назад

      there are so many holes in this:
      1), he's not referencing any sources,
      2), he's using outliers and exceptions to be the big picture (just like those you're claiming to demystify),
      3) he's promoting a known scam, skillshare (so you either can't research well, or you're easily bought, which leads me to...
      4) how much does it cost for him choose sides rather than be objective and report objectively?
      and 5) he'll delete this comment, and that just adds to the misinformation he purports to oppose.
      I'm not and any ones side, except the side of truth and against people who gloss their reports as truth, especially in this day and and upcoming age. bye. i'm unsubbing from this obvious shill channel
      all the chinese commenters on here have to state that they are chinese, and speak with such immaculate english? even getting the oxford commas, and the correct word cases.
      And they have such obvious chinese usernames? this whole video is a shill, and so are these 'commenters'. Just look at the comments.
      This video is trying to normalise is by just saying it’s nothing to worry about, it’s all good. It’s quite horrible what he’s doing

    • @user0K
      @user0K 4 месяца назад

      Imagine we had news like that

  • @danieldinnie5003
    @danieldinnie5003 10 месяцев назад +13

    Wow. This was an exceptionally well put together video. The well balanced version of the content was refreshing. Well done to the writers and researchers of this content!!

    • @neanda
      @neanda 10 месяцев назад +2

      there are so many holes in this:
      1), he's not referencing any sources,
      2), he's using outliers and exceptions to be the big picture (just like those you're claiming to demystify),
      3) he's promoting a known scam, skillshare (so you either can't research well, or you're easily bought, which leads me to...
      4) how much does it cost for him choose sides rather than be objective and report objectively?
      and 5) he'll delete this comment, and that just adds to the misinformation he purports to oppose.
      I'm not and any ones side, except the side of truth and against people who gloss their reports as truth, especially in this day and and upcoming age. bye. i'm unsubbing from this obvious shill channel
      all the chinese commenters on here have to state that they are chinese, and speak with such immaculate english? even getting the oxford commas, and the correct word cases.
      And they have such obvious chinese usernames? this whole video is a shill, and so are these 'commenters'. Just look at the comments.
      This video is trying to normalise is by just saying it’s nothing to worry about, it’s all good. It’s quite horrible what he’s doing

  • @Eeeeehhh
    @Eeeeehhh 10 месяцев назад +10

    I completely agree with your closing statements, great work!

  • @MagnificentCreature
    @MagnificentCreature 10 месяцев назад +76

    Informative video, adds up to alot of observations I have talking to Chinese people about this. Well done!

    • @eruditejuvenile5266
      @eruditejuvenile5266 10 месяцев назад +3

      My dad visited China few years ago, in airport the cameras did most of the work.

    • @skp8748
      @skp8748 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@eruditejuvenile5266huh

    • @neanda
      @neanda 10 месяцев назад

      there are so many holes in this:
      1), he's not referencing any sources,
      2), he's using outliers and exceptions to be the big picture (just like those you're claiming to demystify),
      3) he's promoting a known scam, skillshare (so you either can't research well, or you're easily bought, which leads me to...
      4) how much does it cost for him choose sides rather than be objective and report objectively?
      and 5) he'll delete this comment, and that just adds to the misinformation he purports to oppose.
      I'm not and any ones side, except the side of truth and against people who gloss their reports as truth, especially in this day and and upcoming age. bye. i'm unsubbing from this obvious shill channel
      all the chinese commenters on here have to state that they are chinese, and speak with such immaculate english? even getting the oxford commas, and the correct word cases.
      And they have such obvious chinese usernames? this whole video is a shill, and so are these 'commenters'. Just look at the comments.
      This video is trying to normalise is by just saying it’s nothing to worry about, it’s all good. It’s quite horrible what he’s doing

  • @JohnDoe-vi1im
    @JohnDoe-vi1im 10 месяцев назад +54

    I trust this channel more in getting unbiased, rational and relevant information than i trust any newspaper or magazine i know.

    • @cindyhuang7021
      @cindyhuang7021 10 месяцев назад +1

      i actully agree with you

    • @hagbardceline1980
      @hagbardceline1980 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@cindyhuang7021 ol PolyMatter now on the CCP paylist. Unsubbed.

    • @GLPentAxel
      @GLPentAxel 10 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@hagbardceline1980"ongoing atrocities in Xinjiang" doesn't sound like a great line to keep in a video if you're on the CCP payroll.

    • @hagbardceline1980
      @hagbardceline1980 10 месяцев назад

      @@GLPentAxel Good point... probably just the Klaus Schwab / Federal Reserve paylist then.

    • @evryatis9231
      @evryatis9231 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@hagbardceline1980 ....or maybe he's just an independant youtuber?

  • @user-pb6ld2pn2f
    @user-pb6ld2pn2f 9 месяцев назад +16

    I was an intern for a Chinese court and I'm the one who gave restriction orders. Basically if you owe debt to someone and they sued you, and you're seriously defaulted, I would put you on the restriction list. You can't take airplane, high-speed train, and anything that costs more than average money (but you can still take slower train or drive). The whole point is to force the people who are able but avoided/hide from the debt to pay. It's pretty useful bc I got several people paying their debt immediately they found they couldn't board the plane. I got those social credit jokes a lot and I was genuinely thinking, bruh, I understand you need to show your supreme proud of liberty or what not. But do some research before you mock your imagination. If you do the research and reason me about China in whatever respect, I'm hands down listening to you.

  • @zefantan4823
    @zefantan4823 9 месяцев назад +18

    As a Chinese, I'm so tired of arguing this bullshit on the internet with the English speaking netizen, thank you for your great effort!

    • @yibai_to
      @yibai_to 8 месяцев назад +1

      这些视频奏效不是很大😮你可以去造谣视频按时间排序试试

    • @alisha7224
      @alisha7224 7 месяцев назад +1

      lol. Clearly gunning for 900 social credit score

    • @Rex-ww4cw
      @Rex-ww4cw 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@kowaikarasutoo brainwashed to noticed the truth ?😂

    • @Rex-ww4cw
      @Rex-ww4cw 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@alisha7224same for you😂

    • @zefantan4823
      @zefantan4823 7 месяцев назад

      Basic idiot@@alisha7224

  • @FactNFiction
    @FactNFiction 10 месяцев назад +12

    Love your videos on the future of our planet very interesting!

  • @kangminliu160
    @kangminliu160 9 месяцев назад +3

    when someone told me, a Chinese, that there is something called Social Credit Score in China, i had no idea what he was talking about, and after i told him there is no such thing, he looked me with pity like i was the one brainwashed and he refused to believe me..

  • @maxerd
    @maxerd 10 месяцев назад +104

    This really hits the nail on the head when it comes to China's bureaucratic dysfunction. At the core of it all is 'appearance over substance'. Local governments cutting corners or making big splashes to meet quotas or impress higher ups.

    • @yiping7193
      @yiping7193 10 месяцев назад +15

      don't know about cutting corners more like lack of standards and experience. It is abit like the wild west you have the make up the rules and standards. Keep in mind most local gov only become revlant in the last 20 yrs or so.

    • @maxerd
      @maxerd 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@yiping7193 Cutting corners is twofold; one is saving money for the sake of saving money, and two is apathy. For example tofu dreg projects and painting the hill green.

    • @sleepyjoe4529
      @sleepyjoe4529 10 месяцев назад +1

      You make it sound like it's unique to China

    • @maxerd
      @maxerd 10 месяцев назад +4

      @@sleepyjoe4529 Every country has its bureaucratic dysfunction, but China's blend is particularly extreme. Call it bureaucracy with Chinese characteristics.

    • @yiping7193
      @yiping7193 10 месяцев назад +3

      That is few and rare , wouldn’t say doesn’t happen because its does. If you get caught and they do get caught it is a quick way to end your political career. In China unlike anywhere else failure is punished quickly. Very few ppl understand competition in China is crazy a lot of ppl is waiting in line for you the fail.

  • @alfaindomart1766
    @alfaindomart1766 10 месяцев назад +13

    I disagree with you not blaming the journalists. This is coming from someone who used to consider becoming a journalist as a future career.
    In my undergraduate thesis, i took the topic of China and international propaganda and news media as my main subjects. It was at the time of HK protest, closely followed by the pandemic. International perception of China was at the lowest, anyone will believe any negative report about China, common sense be damned.
    Everyday, I read every piece of article that came out, opinion pieces, research journals, books, until i was sick. I quickly got disillusioned by those news media that i once respected. The amount of hate, generated from the half-assed article and clickbait headline, is really sickening.
    If I, an undergraduate student, who can't speak or read chinese, has no access to chinese translator, or networks of information and connections like these big media have, can see the actual context and story behind those bombastic headline, then they have no excuse!
    Those journalists and editors surely know the big influence they have on society and public policy. Yet they don't seem to care at all. They know people will click on anything with China in the title. They know people will engage the content, debate in the comments, and share the article more than any other topic.
    So many asian americans got insulted, assaulted in this past 3 years. Lives lost, injury for life, and not to mention the mental trauma and fear that they have to live with. And i have no doubt the bombastic headlines and half-assed articles played a big role in it.

    • @B121AN1
      @B121AN1 10 месяцев назад

      You wrote an article only to post it in RUclips comment section? Good luck getting anywhere with your journalistic career.

    • @user-mk3vh4cr9j
      @user-mk3vh4cr9j 8 месяцев назад

      lol mate, dont bother reasoning with amerimutts who pick up random bullsh!t from their media, keep on with your career of truth seeking, and good luck!

  • @yinyanggreninja5720
    @yinyanggreninja5720 5 месяцев назад +3

    As a Chinese person that has lived in china for quite a bit of time in beijing(capital)I never knew about this in my life but if it somehow got under my nose for 10 years then my score better be high

    • @hansu230
      @hansu230 4 месяца назад

      专门治老赖的,那些开口闭口信用分的,可能已经着魔了

  • @nigelthornberry5375
    @nigelthornberry5375 9 месяцев назад +2

    "One pilot program organized it's social credit score by giving people a score from A to D. That is, till someone criticized that the Japanese occupation of China used the same scoring method, and the program quietly vanished." hekking OOPS

    • @user-mr5qx6nu3e
      @user-mr5qx6nu3e 5 месяцев назад

      It is surprising that corrections can be made even under public criticism?

  • @ImTheApexBoy
    @ImTheApexBoy 10 месяцев назад +1

    Super informative as always, thank you!

  • @ichoapu
    @ichoapu 10 месяцев назад +50

    Hey, great video first of all, but the seaseme credit system from alibaba isn't as much of a failure as the system was very multi purposes like a lot of other chinese policies. The system allowed ali to analyse the data it has on all its sellers on Taobao and provided the needed risk analysis for them to give them a credit rating for private loans.
    This fulfilled a void which previously existed in the market as chinese banks were reluctant to provide loans to e-merchants, and allowed ant financial services (their subsidary) to massively profit from those short-mid term loans to merchants. The repayment rate was really high and they essentially take on minimal risk because of the years of revenue data and spending habits from merchants were avaliable through taobao. This then also spawned products such as 余额宝,花呗 and similar products from tencent which eventually got hit by the regulatory hammer that eventually ended with Jack Mas semi retirement. Interesting topic for another video to cover :)
    Sorry if the rambling made little sense, this was typed up from what i remembered on top of my head. Where as your videos were extremely well researched and covers many aspects of the topics, I always recommend this channel to people I know who wishes to have an actual informed view on China. Once again thanks for all the vids

    • @Pushing_Pixels
      @Pushing_Pixels 10 месяцев назад

      So it's like the west, in that it's about financial credit primarily, and that private companies are managing the data separately from the government?

  • @stefanschneider3681
    @stefanschneider3681 10 месяцев назад +2

    Weii done, I personally like the less loud, but more balanced voices. Best sentence in my eyes: „They are all people“! That’s exactly what I think: Every human is struggling with itself and everything around him / her, trying to find a way that fits itself, it’s possibilities and opportunities.

  • @harunsuaidi7349
    @harunsuaidi7349 10 месяцев назад +1

    This situation really captures our current condition of our relationship with the media and indeed information itself. So much things are lost in the echo chambers full of misunderstanding, half-truths, prejudice, and motivated reasoning.

  • @anom274
    @anom274 10 месяцев назад +8

    I have recently been to shanghai, china. I have met many locals and talked with them. When i asked them about the social credit score they laughed because that doesn’t even exist in China. I was in disbelief that such a big subject is straight up a huge lie to spread negative propaganda. Don‘t believe everything you see!😂

    • @ezkl.M
      @ezkl.M 10 месяцев назад

      A CCP robot again.

    • @Omniback20
      @Omniback20 9 месяцев назад +7

      ​@@ezkl.Mparanoid

    • @BioTheHuman
      @BioTheHuman 9 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@Omniback20He's right lol.
      You can find videos of westerners who lived in China and perfectly explain the thing.
      The social cred score was explained by the Communist Party itself and released to the public, you can find the documents.
      The only problem is that the system didn't seem to have worked or maintained properly, but the intention is definitely there and I doubt that they've definitely abandoned it. There is a China region where they firstly began the tests and people really were blocked as you here in the memes

    • @klaci003
      @klaci003 9 месяцев назад

      China is so democratic

    • @xmar4497
      @xmar4497 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@ezkl.M 你觉得有就有吧,如果这能让你舒服一点。反正你怎么想对我们也没啥影响。

  • @AshiwiZuni
    @AshiwiZuni 10 месяцев назад +7

    What really gets me upset is how most American Pundits refer to that hyper-dystopian social credit system, meanwhile in the US, your credit score contributes heavily to your social status. I mean think about how much capital is connected to social status wether it be at the millionaire level, or the “small business owner” type, and even to homeowners.

  • @pingpongdonkeykongkong
    @pingpongdonkeykongkong 10 месяцев назад +10

    I have lived in china for almost 8 years. One thing you mentioned in your video is that due to public backlash to the social credit score the government abandoned it. Yes, unlike what many westerners believe, the government does actually listen to its people. I am happy that unlike soooo many videos about China being this horrible miserable place to live you were unbiased and quite accurate in your content.

  • @nmsl4133
    @nmsl4133 4 месяца назад +3

    Asking a person if he/she believes China’s “Social Credit System” exists is the best way to test that person’s intelligence and the reliability of his/her information sources.

    • @StarsManny
      @StarsManny 4 месяца назад

      That doesn't make any sense

  • @IRosamelia
    @IRosamelia 10 месяцев назад +1

    What an excellent video, thanks for clearing this up!

  • @uptwist2260
    @uptwist2260 10 месяцев назад

    Your videos really do keep getting better and better

  • @QuattroRipassi
    @QuattroRipassi 10 месяцев назад +10

    I did my own in-depth research about the subject, and I can confirm this video is the best in explaining how things actually work without hype or drama.

  • @Ahmedsh_MD
    @Ahmedsh_MD 10 месяцев назад +67

    This is the first time I have ever written a comment on a video. This video is really well made, and the script is phenomenal!

    • @valhalla9688
      @valhalla9688 10 месяцев назад +1

      Yes, I love this channel. It is one of the best there is.

    • @slypear
      @slypear 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@TheIndependentLiberal Live in today's China much, right now?

    • @ThunderSims
      @ThunderSims 10 месяцев назад

      You're really well made

    • @riplikatlnloki5091
      @riplikatlnloki5091 10 месяцев назад

      Liar

    • @Karlach_
      @Karlach_ 10 месяцев назад

      L comment, make more entertaining comments or i'm unsubbing noob

  • @ambiguism
    @ambiguism 10 месяцев назад

    That was EXTREMELY WELL DONE. I always thought something was up with those articles and this did a really good job at clarifying why those dystopian aspects entered the news cycle. stories

  • @theronerdithas2944
    @theronerdithas2944 10 месяцев назад +4

    Very good video. I am glad you demystified the cload of my misinformation and ignorance about this topic. I wonder how you got so much info on some of these systems in China. Maybe my perception on how hard it is to get is wrong or you spent a good amount of time researching and talking to people from China for this video. Again very nice.

    • @neanda
      @neanda 10 месяцев назад

      there are so many holes in this:
      1), he's not referencing any sources,
      2), he's using outliers and exceptions to be the big picture (just like those you're claiming to demystify),
      3) he's promoting a known scam, skillshare (so you either can't research well, or you're easily bought, which leads me to...
      4) how much does it cost for him choose sides rather than be objective and report objectively?
      and 5) he'll delete this comment, and that just adds to the misinformation he purports to oppose.
      I'm not and any ones side, except the side of truth and against people who gloss their reports as truth, especially in this day and and upcoming age. bye. i'm unsubbing from this obvious shill channel
      all the chinese commenters on here have to state that they are chinese, and speak with such immaculate english? even getting the oxford commas, and the correct word cases.
      And they have such obvious chinese usernames? this whole video is a shill, and so are these 'commenters'. Just look at the comments.
      This video is trying to normalise is by just saying it’s nothing to worry about, it’s all good. It’s quite horrible what he’s doing

  • @dedasalmeida9047
    @dedasalmeida9047 10 месяцев назад +6

    Would like to see you debate "China Uncensored", "Laowhy" and "Serpentza" on this 😂

    • @bathhatingcat8626
      @bathhatingcat8626 10 месяцев назад +1

      Or me- any of us who have lived in China over 10 years

    • @EmmaNguyen-mg5xq
      @EmmaNguyen-mg5xq 10 месяцев назад +3

      These Channels are sinophobic, racist and Spreading Western Propaganda. They can barely speak Chinese.

    • @Yaoiekimi
      @Yaoiekimi 5 месяцев назад +2

      These people profit by telling shock stories and
      cater to audiences that want to hear barbarian horrors to satisfy themselves. No point in debating them. They are essentially online
      politicians.

    • @PurpleDoritos666
      @PurpleDoritos666 Месяц назад

      All those guys hate China yet they are married to Chinese women can’t make it up lmao 😂

    • @alexgamer3312
      @alexgamer3312 Месяц назад

      China Uncensored is associated with the Falun Gong cult, while Laowhy and SerpentZA are basically being anti-China.

  • @sawyerjacobson1
    @sawyerjacobson1 10 месяцев назад +32

    When I saw the memes for social credit, I always assumed it was fake. The fact that the story reached the White House just shows how fast misinformation can spread

    • @neanda
      @neanda 10 месяцев назад

      there are so many holes in this:
      1), he's not referencing any sources,
      2), he's using outliers and exceptions to be the big picture (just like those you're claiming to demystify),
      3) he's promoting a known scam, skillshare (so you either can't research well, or you're easily bought, which leads me to...
      4) how much does it cost for him choose sides rather than be objective and report objectively?
      and 5) he'll delete this comment, and that just adds to the misinformation he purports to oppose.
      I'm not and any ones side, except the side of truth and against people who gloss their reports as truth, especially in this day and and upcoming age. bye. i'm unsubbing from this obvious shill channel
      all the chinese commenters on here have to state that they are chinese, and speak with such immaculate english? even getting the oxford commas, and the correct word cases.
      And they have such obvious chinese usernames? this whole video is a shill, and so are these 'commenters'. Just look at the comments.
      This video is trying to normalise is by just saying it’s nothing to worry about, it’s all good. It’s quite horrible what he’s doing

    • @Habib_Osman
      @Habib_Osman 10 месяцев назад

      That's what people say under this video. Yet, hundreds of these toxic propaganda videos are still available on RUclips.. and scepticism is Extremely rare. Funny how suddenly like a third of all people in this comment section claim to have seen straight through the nasty propaganda all this time.

    • @user-gc1hg9sp9k
      @user-gc1hg9sp9k 10 месяцев назад

      white house doesnt care whether those information are accurate or not, as long if those could make their enemy look bad they would accept it, Just like WMD or nayirah testimony of iraq

  • @FaZekiller-qe3uf
    @FaZekiller-qe3uf 10 месяцев назад +1

    The definition of an algorithm is simple: a finite set of unambiguous instructions that, given some set of initial conditions, can be performed in a prescribed sequence to achieve a certain goal and that has a recognizable set of end conditions.
    Examples:
    1. x + y
    2. if x - 4 == y + 3 { return x } else { y }
    3. The entire Neovim program

  • @Karearearea
    @Karearearea 10 месяцев назад +2

    I was waiting for you to drop the big 'revealing truth' at 4:00... and then these big ominous letters slowly faded in to fill the screen... SKILL SHARE. Lmao

  • @Randleray
    @Randleray 10 месяцев назад +8

    And this exactly why i simply dont trust any organizations or private people which speak about countries - no matter the topic - which have never been there nor have actual contacts to people from there. And the most disturbing thing is, if you have lived in countries like China for a substantial amount of time, you can not only detect bs journalism like this on that very country, but you are able to detect any bs journalism about any country fairly easy.
    "The West" critiques China for being absolutely controlling... but the interesting part comes, if you not only live in China, but also have somewhat close ties to average chinese citizens. Their perspective is not simply opposite of what the west says. It has a complete different view on things alltogether. Just one example: One friend in China asked me once if it is safe to visit Europe. I was adequately disturbed by that question, because generally Europe is a very safe space to traverse compared to the rest of the world. The answer from my friend on that was, and I quote: 'But there are no public secruity cameras in most places, there can happen all sorts of bad things'. And that moment it clicked to me, that 90% of what western media reports about Asia or china in partucular is absolute bs, because they try to apply a western point of view to a vastly different world perspective over there in China... Sure enough, the normal citizen is somewhat chained due to the harsh inner politics of China... but you could say almost the same about America, where the average citizen cannot escape the absolute bloodthristy capitalism and is always forced into the role of a consumer-zombie.

  • @Mao11622
    @Mao11622 10 месяцев назад +18

    The first ever in-depth analysis of the credit system. Great work!

    • @neanda
      @neanda 10 месяцев назад

      as a chinese.
      there are so many holes in this:
      1), he's not referencing any sources,
      2), he's using outliers and exceptions to be the big picture (just like those you're claiming to demystify),
      3) he's promoting a known scam, skillshare (so you either can't research well, or you're easily bought, which leads me to...
      4) how much does it cost for him choose sides rather than be objective and report objectively?
      and 5) he'll delete this comment, and that just adds to the misinformation he purports to oppose.
      I'm not and any ones side, except the side of truth and against people who gloss their reports as truth, especially in this day and and upcoming age. bye. i'm unsubbing from this obvious shill channel
      all the chinese commenters on here have to state that they are chinese, and speak with such immaculate english? even getting the oxford commas, and the correct word cases.
      And they have such obvious chinese usernames? this whole video is a shill, and so are these 'commenters'. Just look at the comments.
      This video is trying to normalise is by just saying it’s nothing to worry about, it’s all good. It’s quite horrible what he’s doing

    • @Habib_Osman
      @Habib_Osman 10 месяцев назад

      Nah.. I saw a video destroying the social credit system in China myth like a year ago. It is called China's Social Credit System: Fact vs. Fiction, and it was featured on the channel The Diplomat.

  • @bbaekkhyyunne_4750
    @bbaekkhyyunne_4750 6 месяцев назад +2

    As a newcomer from China in the U.S., when I searched for "China" on RUclips firstly without a VPN, I wasn't surprised to find numerous videos talking about China's economy potentially collapsing. After all, I often come across negative news about the American economy on Chinese media, and it seems like a tit-for-tat between countries with different ideologies.
    However, what really caught me off guard was the frequent mention of the "credit system." I had never heard of this term before. I initially thought it was just like a credit score, much like the ones based on your credit card history in the U.S. But the idea of a credit score tied to surveillance seemed absurd to me.

    • @gknkrnkjgjugjrgjrng
      @gknkrnkjgjugjrgjrng 6 месяцев назад

      CHINA ECONOMY IS NOT COLLAPSING,BUT IT HAS SLOWED DOWN AND WOULD NEVER CATCH UP WITH AMERICA

    • @odzergaming
      @odzergaming 3 месяца назад

      @@gknkrnkjgjugjrgjrngsee you next century

  • @remka2000
    @remka2000 6 месяцев назад +1

    Fascinating. I appreciate the debunking, this makes much more sense.Thank you.
    Reminds me a bit of an engineer joke we had in my previous company : Say big data for investors, machine learning for project managers, and statistics to hire actual devs... 😅

  • @anarcho-boulangistllamaent2023
    @anarcho-boulangistllamaent2023 10 месяцев назад +3

    4:59 "Full-blown attack on Uyghurs". Yeah, just like the Hutu started a "full-blown attack" on the Tutsi back in 1994.
    Seriously, lets call a genocide a genocide instead of using these euphemisms.

  • @qxrbil
    @qxrbil 10 месяцев назад +26

    Ironic that the ACLU now supports a system such as this for Americans for the particular social issues the ACLU supports. How far that organization has fallen.

    • @oliversmith2129
      @oliversmith2129 10 месяцев назад

      Imagine believing that ACLU ever stood for something.

    • @NeostormXLMAX
      @NeostormXLMAX 10 месяцев назад +1

      Every accusations that zogbots lay on china is just projection

  • @th3b0yg
    @th3b0yg 10 месяцев назад

    This is a great video. It's so much more interesting to hear the complexity and messiness behind the black and white reporting of the old guard (ACLU, old media, etc).

  • @connorshaw5638
    @connorshaw5638 10 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks this was fascinating

  • @strykenine7902
    @strykenine7902 10 месяцев назад +24

    I'd like to point out that if this is shown to 'work' in China, this kind of thing will show up in other places as well. Americans lived without credit scores until almost the nineties. It's hard to say that life has become signifigantly better since then, though we have much, much less privacy.

    • @zennyzenzen
      @zennyzenzen 10 месяцев назад

      I have an outstanding credit score and all they have is my government information. So unless banks and social security numbers didn't exist before the nineties, I'd say not much has changed.

    • @zennyzenzen
      @zennyzenzen 10 месяцев назад

      oh and for privacy? opt out. No one is stopping you from data collection. Head to your settings and start checking privacy policies before you sign up to stuff. Your data being collected is all you.

    • @oliversmith2129
      @oliversmith2129 10 месяцев назад +18

      @@zennyzenzen It's kinda cute how you think that clicking on "don't collect my data" would stop them from collecting your data.

    • @altrag
      @altrag 10 месяцев назад

      > It's hard to say that life has become signifigantly better since then
      Depends what you mean by "life". Its not going to change your ability to get coffee and donuts, but it significantly streamlines things like loan applications (mortgage, payment plan for cars, etc) for those who have good credit, while protecting the loan providers from those who have a habit of defaulting.
      Of course if you don't need a loan, its not going to impact your life too much.
      Some employers check credit history under the idea that people with bad credit are more likely to defraud the company or steal from the register or whatever. That's kind of a negative in my opinion as it punishes bad luck more than it punishes bad people, and that's not really fantastic imo.
      There's definitely some outright negatives coming from the credit score system, but there's also some definite positives as well even if you personally haven't noticed them.

    • @strykenine7902
      @strykenine7902 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@zennyzenzen This is the most Zoomer thing I've ever heard. My guess is you feel this way because you have never lived without it.
      And now, you never will.

  • @BloodRider1914
    @BloodRider1914 10 месяцев назад +5

    Never assume malicious intent when the truth is incompetence.

  • @Larkinchance
    @Larkinchance 4 месяца назад +2

    When the US says that an enemy is constructing an onerous surveillance on all it citizen, you can be sure that the US is doing the same thing

  • @RobertScholten
    @RobertScholten 10 месяцев назад +1

    I think also that Black Mirrror episode helped people imagine it ... I remember ppl would say something like "remember that black mirror episode with the social credit score? China is building something like that right now" etc

  • @DragonTamerCos
    @DragonTamerCos 10 месяцев назад +3

    This is a good test for polymatters integrity

  • @baahcusegamer4530
    @baahcusegamer4530 10 месяцев назад +4

    Sounds like ESG ratings by Blackrock but for individuals. To the video’s point about verifiable systems, the ESG one is very well documented and actively pushed in the US

  • @michaelselasi7540
    @michaelselasi7540 10 месяцев назад +32

    Honestly, I trust content about China from polymatter as they tend to be far more objective than from legacy media

    • @neanda
      @neanda 10 месяцев назад

      there are so many holes in this:
      1), he's not referencing any sources,
      2), he's using outliers and exceptions to be the big picture (just like those you're claiming to demystify),
      3) he's promoting a known scam, skillshare (so you either can't research well, or you're easily bought, which leads me to...
      4) how much does it cost for him choose sides rather than be objective and report objectively?
      and 5) he'll delete this comment, and that just adds to the misinformation he purports to oppose.
      I'm not and any ones side, except the side of truth and against people who gloss their reports as truth, especially in this day and and upcoming age. bye. i'm unsubbing from this obvious shill channel
      all the chinese commenters on here have to state that they are chinese, and speak with such immaculate english? even getting the oxford commas, and the correct word cases.
      And they have such obvious chinese usernames? this whole video is a shill, and so are these 'commenters'. Just look at the comments.
      This video is trying to normalise is by just saying it’s nothing to worry about, it’s all good. It’s quite horrible what he’s doing

  • @bharatavarsha10k
    @bharatavarsha10k 10 месяцев назад

    Great work 🙏🏻❤️

  • @nanxingluo4902
    @nanxingluo4902 10 месяцев назад +14

    I am Chinese living in China. I don't know the existence of such a social credit system.

    • @perfectdark287
      @perfectdark287 10 месяцев назад +11

      im American living in America. Trust me, there is a social credit system. I heard it on facebook...

    • @treeinafield5022
      @treeinafield5022 10 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@perfectdark287😂

    • @MrTynanDraper
      @MrTynanDraper 10 месяцев назад +2

      Obviously you never attended a Covid lockdown protest or criticized the CCP online. Then you would quickly learn about the social credit system!

    • @neanda
      @neanda 10 месяцев назад

      there are so many holes in this:
      1), he's not referencing any sources,
      2), he's using outliers and exceptions to be the big picture (just like those you're claiming to demystify),
      3) he's promoting a known scam, skillshare (so you either can't research well, or you're easily bought, which leads me to...
      4) how much does it cost for him choose sides rather than be objective and report objectively?
      and 5) he'll delete this comment, and that just adds to the misinformation he purports to oppose.
      I'm not and any ones side, except the side of truth and against people who gloss their reports as truth, especially in this day and and upcoming age. bye. i'm unsubbing from this obvious shill channel
      all the chinese commenters on here have to state that they are chinese, and speak with such immaculate english? even getting the oxford commas, and the correct word cases.
      And they have such obvious chinese usernames? this whole video is a shill, and so are these 'commenters'. Just look at the comments.
      This video is trying to normalise is by just saying it’s nothing to worry about, it’s all good. It’s quite horrible what he’s doing

    • @neanda
      @neanda 10 месяцев назад

      @@perfectdark287 there are so many holes in this:
      1), he's not referencing any sources,
      2), he's using outliers and exceptions to be the big picture (just like those you're claiming to demystify),
      3) he's promoting a known scam, skillshare (so you either can't research well, or you're easily bought, which leads me to...
      4) how much does it cost for him choose sides rather than be objective and report objectively?
      and 5) he'll delete this comment, and that just adds to the misinformation he purports to oppose.
      I'm not and any ones side, except the side of truth and against people who gloss their reports as truth, especially in this day and and upcoming age. bye. i'm unsubbing from this obvious shill channel
      all the chinese commenters on here have to state that they are chinese, and speak with such immaculate english? even getting the oxford commas, and the correct word cases.
      And they have such obvious chinese usernames? this whole video is a shill, and so are these 'commenters'. Just look at the comments.
      This video is trying to normalise is by just saying it’s nothing to worry about, it’s all good. It’s quite horrible what he’s doing

  • @sawyerjacobson1
    @sawyerjacobson1 10 месяцев назад +7

    I always wondered what the context was behind the social credit memes 💀

    • @Rex-ww4cw
      @Rex-ww4cw 10 месяцев назад

      Attempt to brainwashed the world to hate China

  • @blankrealist8872
    @blankrealist8872 8 месяцев назад

    Thanks for the nice info

  • @dumdum8880
    @dumdum8880 10 месяцев назад

    That was a great and informative video!

  • @fazrinjamal9986
    @fazrinjamal9986 10 месяцев назад +5

    Hi. I hope you will make video about China on the following topics (because I don't know which side to believe) :
    1. The ethnic cleansing & reeducation camps in Xinjiang.
    2. The resurgence of religious belief in China.
    3. Falun Gong.
    4. The alleged interference in Hong Kong's affair.
    5. China's technological innovation.

    • @mushiat6530
      @mushiat6530 10 месяцев назад

      Most of these are easy to find data on.
      Xinjiang has had multiple documents hacked and then leaked that you can easily search Google for. Not only that, watch the documentaries where China flies in RUclipsrs, puts them in luxury hotels, and has them read from the same script saying that nothing bad is happening in Xinjiang.
      There is religion in China small Christian sects, Buddhism, etc.
      Falun gong is interesting. It's a weird religious group that conflicts a lot with the policies put in place. They end up protesting and getting arrested. The part that I haven't seen as much proof for is whether there's organ harvesting from Falun Gong members while in prison. I definitely would need to do more research.
      Hong Kong is the easiest one to explain. When England gave Hong Kong over to China, they signed a treat saying that Hong Kong was to have an independent government for 50 years after 1997. Google the Sino-British joint declaration for more info. All info on that is public.
      Lastly China has technological advancements in things like factory automation, AI, and quite a few other fields. Some of these are advancements created by the Chinese, some are stolen from Western countries. Both happen. Anyone who says everything is stolen is wrong, but also anyone who says nothing is stolen is wrong.

    • @user-ir4dq6hn5g
      @user-ir4dq6hn5g 10 месяцев назад +4

      来中国一趟就好了,没有那么复杂的🐷

    • @Larry-Lobster
      @Larry-Lobster 10 месяцев назад

      1. No ethnic cleansing happened (Uyghur population has continued to grow, absolutely 0 evidence of any genocide), high levels of surveillance due to multiple deadly terror attacks that occurred in the 2000s and early 2010s. “Camps” were ended, Xinjiang has prospered significantly since with high increases in GDP and infrastructure development and no terror attacks have occurred since. Uyghurs can freely practice in mosques. I’ve visited Xinjiang myself (my profile pic is actually a temple located in Xinjiang!)
      2. Not really, Chinese people have always been relatively spiritual but no dominant faiths like in the West or Arabic world. That hasn’t changed.
      3. Cult that was banned in China and now spends their time grifting with right-wingers in the US (Epoch Times). Chances are if they say it, it’s a lie. Weird beliefs such as interracial marriage should be banned, modern medicine is fake, Falun Gong followers are superior human beings descendant from aliens, etc hiding behind a veil of meditation and the like.
      4. Hong Kong’s affairs are China’s affairs. Passed National Security law that punished rioting that was very widespread in 2019. Region much more stable now.
      5. China has tech innovation? Just look at their electric cars, drones, 5G network integration, and more. Not sure what more to say here.

    • @Larry-Lobster
      @Larry-Lobster 10 месяцев назад

      @@user-ir4dq6hn5g For real, but so many Westerners are scared after hearing all the nonsense propaganda from the MSM

  • @Fei_Ge
    @Fei_Ge 10 месяцев назад +9

    I am Chinese and I live in China. In fact, I can't find the corresponding "Social Credit score" in China at all. But according to this statement, I think the most matching is that after committing a crime, there will be a record, and it will be difficult to find a job. In fact, there is a similar, called the credit information system, this is to prevent some people owe money to the bank, but also can get away with murder. So if you really travel to China, you will find that a lot of media exaggerates the negative image of China.

  • @danielhale1
    @danielhale1 10 месяцев назад

    Thank you for this. I'd only ever heard the exaggerated version, and it's really interesting to see what was really going on behind the curtain.

  • @TheNoerdy
    @TheNoerdy 10 месяцев назад

    Wonderful video. Best one since your Sri Lanka video.

  • @lewishiggins8138
    @lewishiggins8138 10 месяцев назад +5

    Extremely educational and well explained!! One of your best videos by far

    • @neanda
      @neanda 10 месяцев назад

      there are so many holes in this:
      1), he's not referencing any sources,
      2), he's using outliers and exceptions to be the big picture (just like those you're claiming to demystify),
      3) he's promoting a known scam, skillshare (so you either can't research well, or you're easily bought, which leads me to...
      4) how much does it cost for him choose sides rather than be objective and report objectively?
      and 5) he'll delete this comment, and that just adds to the misinformation he purports to oppose.
      I'm not and any ones side, except the side of truth and against people who gloss their reports as truth, especially in this day and and upcoming age. bye. i'm unsubbing from this obvious shill channel
      all the chinese commenters on here have to state that they are chinese, and speak with such immaculate english? even getting the oxford commas, and the correct word cases.
      And they have such obvious chinese usernames? this whole video is a shill, and so are these 'commenters'. Just look at the comments.
      This video is trying to normalise is by just saying it’s nothing to worry about, it’s all good. It’s quite horrible what he’s doing

  • @Someoneishere114
    @Someoneishere114 10 месяцев назад +5

    As a Chinese person…I recovered that I know nothing about the credit system and even didn’t;t notice the existence of it when I was in China😂

    • @MrTynanDraper
      @MrTynanDraper 10 месяцев назад

      Maybe you should talk to some Uyghur people from Xinjiang about intense monitoring and social rating system..because it absolutely is used on them. Though at this point they would be afraid to talk about it with a Han Chinese.

    • @Rex-ww4cw
      @Rex-ww4cw 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@MrTynanDraper the reason of that is because Xinjiang border Afghanistan and it is the only places in China that have terrorist activities in it. There's literally 2000-2014 news video of terrorist stabbing and blowing up people in RUclips.

    • @user-tp4pd2zs7v
      @user-tp4pd2zs7v 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@MrTynanDraper 你就是为了诽谤而诽谤,作为土生土长的中国人都不了解,你去过中国吗?看了报纸就以为掌握信息了。

    • @user-ir4dq6hn5g
      @user-ir4dq6hn5g 10 месяцев назад

      @@MrTynanDraper 装睡的人,叫不醒,叫不醒…

    • @user-vu1nf3ky3y
      @user-vu1nf3ky3y 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@MrTynanDrapermost Chinese have little fear to Uyghur, because they did carry out many terrorist attacks, my hometown Kunming was attacked by Islamic terrorists, which killed nearly 200 people.

  • @deadringer-cultofdeathratt8813
    @deadringer-cultofdeathratt8813 7 месяцев назад +2

    2:24 mouse casually strolling by

  • @erikharaldsson2416
    @erikharaldsson2416 9 месяцев назад +2

    I have to admit that I bought into the SCS, since it seemed to be reported by so many different trustworthy outlets, so thanks for correcting the issue.

  • @nirui.o
    @nirui.o 10 месяцев назад +5

    Btw, the word "legal person" in the document provide at 4:28 means Legal Entity.

    • @outofmyface
      @outofmyface 10 месяцев назад

      Indeed! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_person

  • @seanwoo9140
    @seanwoo9140 10 месяцев назад +3

    as Chinese, I had never heard of Social Credit System, except on youtube and foreign media.🤣

  • @Thetruthmademan
    @Thetruthmademan 10 месяцев назад +1

    At last an unbiased and in depth explanation of that social credit thing

  • @TESkyrimizer
    @TESkyrimizer 10 месяцев назад

    in the marketplace of ideas, quantity is much more powerful than quality
    skepticism is eventually eroded away by the volume of headlines they encounter
    and then it just becomes the accepted reality, exaggerated or not.

  • @liu3gz
    @liu3gz 9 месяцев назад +10

    As a Chinese living in the USA, I’ve completely no idea what Chinese social credit is, but I’m fully aware of my USA credit score and I’m super careful to keep my score to be above 780ish.

  • @talllala
    @talllala 10 месяцев назад +3

    Now the people in Hong Kong were complaining about the extreme surveillance, they would be subjected to and there are documentaries in which people are stating their very negative experiences of the SC system. So I'm confused.

  • @henry003
    @henry003 10 месяцев назад +2

    Thanks so much for making this video. The amount of misinformation on the English-speaking web is truly disturbing, so I appreciate that at least one decently large content creator is willing to do actual research

  • @levyroth
    @levyroth 10 месяцев назад

    Beautiful, well done ❤