China’s Social Credit System - Absurd New Punishments

The Social Credit System has hit social media in China, and it's pretty dystopian. I break down the new rules and punishments.

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[firefly]

I agree 100% with you on short-form media, it's a cancer of the mind.
I don't have TikTok or Instagram, but I use YouTube for the medium to long-form content and I dislike that it includes Shorts. After realizing they were an absolute SINK of my time, attention, and ultimately of my life, I removed them from my browser's YouTube using an extension. I can't do the same on my phone, but since I'm a coder, I wrote a script to go through my YouTube history page and remove every single instance where I watched a short. Now on the surface it looks like my account never watched a single short, so I don't get recommended them as aggressively. Whenever they pop up, I ignore them or click on the X "don't recommend shorts for 30 days" or whatever UI bullsh*t option they make available.
Avoid short form media, people.

[ConfettiExplosion]

Really easy to monitor people when they…constantly film themselves.

[aaronmicalowe]

CCPs rules are super super weird. One of their rules are you're not allowed to be weird, but they don't apply that rule to themselves.

[gordonjohnston]

They banned Poo Bear. But they still have a leader with a similar look.

[corywilliams]

It’s always weird seeing you and Winston apart. Like seeing Siamese twins in different rooms. Stay awesome Matt. Love the content.

[ghostering]

CCP : make a child!!

Also CCP : stop being sexy!!

[botsharing]

Watching a futuristic dystopian society of billions forming.
What a time to be alive.

[megijapostaza]

I stopped watching short term content last october. It was hard at first, because I had gotten so used to always checking my phone, but OH MY Lord, how much more productive I've been ever since!

[jolenejoleeene]

This is terrifying in its worldwide implications. As someone who has been battling depression for over 30 years, I realized a while ago how much social media exacerbates my mental illness. I stay away from it as much as I can. Even so, I see how much it affects those around me and how almost everything in my life is altered by it regardless. I'm okay with feeling out of the loop sometimes, but watching that loop spin faster and faster is disturbing.

[chopsticksandtrains]

Glad I never let myself get started on the whole short-form media thing… great video sir! Very enlightening and informative.

[cadmean-reader]

I agree with that thing on short-form media. I've had several instances of wandering onto one interesting vid, only to end up losing consecutive hours of my evening. It's different than normal videos maybe in the background or every once in a while. Short form vids capture so much attention, and it doesn't feel like that with the short duration of each vid, but the next vid and the next vid and the next vid. Then, it adds up

[ShadowsandCityLights]

(Banning beautiful people) me: Safe!
(Banning "weird" people) me: 😰

[akkitty]

This is like the gamification of human behavior and external interactions in the world. It is so so dystopian on a level I have never imagined. The horror of giving AI language calculators to determine human "It is unfair that you have advantage XYZ as a living human being to group XYZ, therefore you are fined 100 points for existing."
It is clear this is arbitrary - but arbitrary law making + a machine learning data system = horror.

[backgroundnoise]

They're regulate the platform right into the ground.

[cleganebowldog]

When I was hearing about the numbers for Chinese TikTok, I couldn't help but think of this very website and just how little 'wrongthink' can make you lose your channel, or be demonitized.

[budgiefriend]

I too am feeling the effects of screen dementia. I am beginning the process of cutting down on screen time.

[luckysgi-karrow]

Short form content ruining memory rings pretty true. Back in my college days my psychology 101 professor tasked us to target studying for 30 minutes with no single mental distraction that fully removes your attention. Very difficult. He said if you started out at 3 or 4 minutes, that's really damn good. Most couldn't get past 2. Get it to 30 and you can achieve any goal you want. Yeah that wasn't gonna happen to most with how many students even used the book search computer for their social media addiction (which was Facebook at the time).

[GoforKrogh]

C-milk: "cut down on your screentime!"
also C-milk "thanks for watching please subscribe"

[ColoradoAdventures]

Love the idea of FUM, will definitely try it. First sponsor I really feel a connection with.

[CarlBranco]

I've seen this movie before, it was an episode on Black Mirror. I highly recommend you all watch it. Apparently, in Chine life truly imitates art.