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12/16/2015 11:47:41 PM
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Chinese government video game propaganda is horrifying.
I'm not sure if this is old news or not but it's something I'm just hearing about it. Apparently the company Tencent, the company that owns Riot games and owns lots of stock in Activison, Blizzard and Epic, has partnered with the Chinese government to make a game that reinforces their propaganda called Sesame Credit.
The game monitors all of your social media and keeps track of your day to day social life and gives you something similar to a credit score. This credit score is used to give you bonuses in real life, such as opening up better job opportunities. Having a bad score doesn't currently have negatives but the plan is to make it harder to get a job, harder to communicate, harder to use the Internet.
Post a picture of Tiananmen Square, talk about how the economy is dropping when the government says it's getting better, talk about how nice it would be to not be working slave labor in a factory, score goes down and you are punished. The objective is complete obedience of the population.
Currently the "game" isn't mandatory for every citizen of China, but is growing in popularity in the patriotic citizens that want a number to show how faithful they are to the government. The game will be mandatory for all in 2020, by my forcing it immediately they are indoctrinating people to their cause without it seeming crazy when it's completely insane how manipulative it is.
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Liberty Prime: [b][i]Online[/i][/b] Primary mission directive: [b][i]Death of all red Chinese communists[/i][/b] Chance of mission hindrance: [b][i]ZERO PERCENT![/i][/b]
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8 RepliesEdited by Inflicte: 12/17/2015 3:34:22 AM2020 politics are looking bright with China's sesame credits [i]and[/i] U.S.'s Trump v. Kanye election on the horizon.
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8 Replieswe want china to collapse
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7 Replies... Who cares about China?
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Those commie assholes banned consoles in 2001 and recently legalized them and Square had to re release FFX/X-2 HD on PS4
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George Orwell is rolling in his grave so much he can power a small city. What's also sad that my field of interest is planning on being Chinese National security, so if I git gud in college I can possibly deal with this shit.
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1 ReplyDo that guy that stood up against the tank years ago would be a low score if he still alive
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13 RepliesIt's time for... [i]Liberty Prime.[/i]
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Thanks for the information. I doubt this would've ever reached my newsfeed
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9 RepliesI'm so glad I live in Canada
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China is a lot like Oceania.
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2 RepliesEdited by Onion Beetle Fan: 12/17/2015 12:31:45 PMI'm not sure where you got the Tencent from. Tencent did not make Sesame Credit. It is made by [url=http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150127006582/en/Ant-Financial-Unveils-China%E2%80%99s-Credit-Scoring-System-Online]Alibaba[/url], a Tencent competitor. [url=https://www.alipay.com/]Alibaba[/url] is a giant corporation just like Tencent is a giant corporation. Both of them are in a fierce competition with each other, and only ever collaborate when the chinese government forces them to work together for their cause.
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28 RepliesIt's just a game and essentially teaches to be a good citizen in any country. That game can be applied anywhere Oh but since it's china tho it's those damn communists right? Teaching order and obeying the law is a communist idea okie
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3 RepliesTo be fair it is voluntary. And everyone is entitled to their opinion. They aren't forcing ppl to do it, and just like anything there's ways around it. Hell when I'm interviewing people, as soon as they leave I send there file off for a back round check, and look through there Facebook profile. Hate to tell you, but if government wants to track what your doing, they don't have to try very hard.
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2 RepliesThis is a bit off base. For one it doesn't monitor social network activity. What it said in the video concerning how it subverts dissension through peer pressure simply isn't true. The magnitude of such a system that could do that reliably and accurately right now is not possible. Second China is in a dire need of some sort of credit system. But the problem is that most people don't have any sort of traditional credit history. No one owns homes, has credit cards or cars. Atleast 2/3 of the population would be invisible to a traditional credit monitoring system. So they came up with this. If you spend 10 hours a day playing video games, you are considered idle and it will lower your score. If you are frequently purchasing diapers, you will be flagged as a probable parent and your score will go up. If you have any sort of legal infraction that is not resolved, it will tank your score. It's a new idea, but not necessarily a bad one. Edit: I also forgot to mention that right now alibaba is just one of many companies weighing in with their own sort of credit system. The government right now is completely uninvolved and won't be until 2020, when it decides if it is proper, and which one would work best,
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D:[spoiler]holy shite.......[/spoiler]
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ok thats a bit scary
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That's actually very terrifying. I get the feeling China won't be the last country to use this.
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2 RepliesThats so manipulative and wrong.. [i]*Score goes down*[/i] Damnit, -blam!- you, OP.
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3 RepliesYou should try posting this in #Offtopic, I feel it belongs more there
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Well I also think people should only be allowed one kid per house hold. Am I max level yet?
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Where can I get this and for how much?! I want to see if I'm a good Chinese citizen.
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No wonder they recently legalized game consoles.
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1 ReplyBamp fer later
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4 RepliesGotta love communism
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1 ReplyUnfortunately for your post, OP, because of the lack of sources, this could all be false.
