About 17.46 million “discredited” people were restricted from buying plane tickets and 5.47 million were restricted from purchasing high-speed train tickets, the report said. Photo: Handout
SCMP: China’s social credit system shows its teeth, banning millions from taking flights, trains
* Annual report shows the businesses and individuals added to trustworthiness blacklist as use of the government system accelerates
* System aims to pressure citizens to avoid bad behaviour, although human rights advocates argue it does not take into account individual circumstances
Millions of Chinese individuals and businesses have been labelled as untrustworthy on an official blacklist banning them from any number of activities, including accessing financial markets or travelling by air or train, as the use of the government’s social credit system accelerates.
The annual blacklist is part of a broader effort to boost “trustworthiness” in Chinese society and is an extension of China’s social credit system, which is expected to give each of its 1.4 billion citizens a personal score.
The social credit system assigns both positive and negative scores for individual or corporate behaviour in an attempt to pressure citizens into behaving.
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