Fast Company wants you to think that China’s weird and draconian social credit system is coming to the U.S. just because companies like Uber and Airbnb have ways of rating customers based upon their behavior. But being banned from Uber and Airbnb is not going to result in “bans on leaving the country, using public transportation, checking into hotels, hiring for high-visibility jobs, or acceptance of children to private schools”, or being registered on a public blacklist. It’s perhaps true, and surely concerning, that “[a]n increasing number of societal ‘privileges’ … are either controlled by technology companies or affected by how we use technology services”, but it’s a stretch to compare that to China’s all-encompassing, terrifying, and effectively centralized realization of the points system from The Good Place.
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