{"id":6563,"date":"2015-10-08T08:07:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T14:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6563"},"modified":"2015-10-08T08:07:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T14:07:55","slug":"chinas-nightmarish-citizen-scores-are-a-warning-for-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6563","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Nightmarish Citizen Scores Are a Warning For Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/free-future\/chinas-nightmarish-citizen-scores-are-warning-americans\">Jay Stanley<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>China is launching a comprehensive \u201ccredit score\u201d system, and the more I learn about it, the more nightmarish it seems. China appears to be leveraging all the tools of the information age\u2014electronic purchasing data, social networks, algorithmic sorting\u2014to construct the ultimate tool of social control. It is, as one commentator put it, \u201cauthoritarianism, gamified.\u201d Read this piece for the full flavor\u2014it will make your head spin. If that and the little other reporting I\u2019ve seen is accurate, the basics are this:<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Stanley: China is launching a comprehensive \u201ccredit score\u201d system, and the more I learn about it, the more nightmarish it seems. China appears to be leveraging all the tools of the information age\u2014electronic purchasing data, social networks, algorithmic sorting\u2014to construct the ultimate tool of social control. It is, as one commentator put it, \u201cauthoritarianism, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6563"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6564,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6563\/revisions\/6564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}