Chinese social control does exist, but it differs significantly from the image often portrayed by Western media. There is no universal "social score" assigned to each citizen, nor is there total omnipresent surveillance. It is more of a system targeting illegal content, aimed at preserving a certain social stability - others will speak of strict control. One must also see this as a cultural difference.
Moreover, this system is accepted in China and this is a notable difference.
Nevertheless, as Bart Preneel points out, the Chinese government has the capacity to block pornographic images or information it dislikes, while restricting access to foreign platforms (the Great Firewall).
Yes and no. Chinese culture is group-based, unlike ours, which is individual-centered. There is no social credit in China as portrayed in the West, but social control does exist there. As it does in the West. Government is about control, the law is about control — otherwise, no functioning society.
Now in the EU, a small group of individuals is attempting to impose a control that does not aim to regulate society but to entrench power, which is ontologically incompatible with Western liberal democracy.
Funnily, the "Chinese social control" is mostly Western propaganda. It doesn't exist in China as advertised.
Chinese social control does exist, but it differs significantly from the image often portrayed by Western media. There is no universal "social score" assigned to each citizen, nor is there total omnipresent surveillance. It is more of a system targeting illegal content, aimed at preserving a certain social stability - others will speak of strict control. One must also see this as a cultural difference.
Moreover, this system is accepted in China and this is a notable difference.
Nevertheless, as Bart Preneel points out, the Chinese government has the capacity to block pornographic images or information it dislikes, while restricting access to foreign platforms (the Great Firewall).
Yes and no. Chinese culture is group-based, unlike ours, which is individual-centered. There is no social credit in China as portrayed in the West, but social control does exist there. As it does in the West. Government is about control, the law is about control — otherwise, no functioning society.
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Now in the EU, a small group of individuals is attempting to impose a control that does not aim to regulate society but to entrench power, which is ontologically incompatible with Western liberal democracy.