>> There doesn't seem to be any evidence that any of this data is going to be used to penalize people financially/economically for "social infractions"
Can we stop taking isolated incidents and framing them as official policy?
> can we stop taking isolated incidents and framing them as official policy
Which do you actually want? What bad things that might happen because of it, or that list of bad things massively trimmed down to just what the US government publicly sanctions as official policy?
Also, did you read anything else in the article?
In terms of the facts involved, this has nothing to do with China's social credit score. Note that I am strictly talking about the facts involved, not the political fallout and usual bloviating.
Uhh, that's obviously debatable.
I was responding to a very specific claim. It does have to do with China's social credit score in that it is a slide down the slope toward implementing such nonsense in the US.