Unsurprising. China might be the only country openly flaunting the fact that they're rating people based on social reputation, but we all know that governments everywhere are doing this where-ever they can.
Even the Indian government started a system where they're using people's social media posts to find tax evaders. How long before they start looking for behavior deemed 'anti-nationalist' and tag people voicing unwanted opinions.
The Chinese system is several orders of magnitude more disturbing and more clearly being used to deliberately mind control the population - but yes, several other governments are nudging towards a similar direction.
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