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Comment by TheLoafOfBread | Hacker News Reader

So USA is giving me a social credit? Nice.

Privatize everything: surveillance, background checks, social credits, health scores, beauty scores, financial scores, work scores, etc. That's the best way to appear democratic, while blaming other autocratic, authoritarian regimes for how evil the latter are.

I'm surprised speeding tickets haven't been privatized yet. Get a device installed in your car that monitors the speeds of cars around you. If someone violates the speed limit your car reports them to the authorities and then you get a "cut" of the ticket. Great way to make some extra cash while ignoring the fact that everyone is getting pitted against each other as a way to stay distracted from all the crap the ruling class does...

"Many members of the general public assume that the cameras are property of the locality in which they are used and that the funds received go back into the community. The truth is that less than 20 percent goes to the municipality while the remaining goes to the service provider." [1]

[1] https://worldjusticeproject.org/news/3-private-companies-mak...

> I'm surprised speeding tickets haven't been privatized yet

Red light tickets have. There's a company giving cameras for "free" to cities and then fining the drivers.

If they don't pay, they forward the info to the DMV and then it turns into a "real" traffic ticket/moving violation.

Social credit administered by private firms in the US for Europeans is the good kind of social credit. We'll rent it to European governments.

edit: looks like this is identity unmasking, rather than social credit. Would work well in conjunction with social credit.

US is all about the credit.

But it's not the kind of credit that you usually want.

Just like them, you don't get to choose.

You're now forced to deal with coming mpanies you never entered in an agreement with.

What a great system.

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