Back in 2018, the Chinese President Xi's "social credit system" was rolling out. It's a way to control behavior, thoughts, relationships, status of Chinese citizens without actually resorting to coercive violence on them. (Read posts here, here, here, here, here, here.)
Government-owned cameras are spying everywhere, providing data which result in approval or disapproval. Ordinary life is a lot harder on people with a low social credit score.
This immigrant was there but fled to America for freedom. He warns that we're starting to see similar things in the West. For instance, parents who don't like what their kids are learning at school were labeled domestic terrorists, and our government pressured banks not to give loans to disfavored businesses.
He says it was okay at the beginning: "These things always are."
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