A United Kingdom lawmaker proposed a communist Chinese-style social credit score. Wake up, West!
U.K. Conservative Party lawmaker John Penrose proposed an addition to the anti-free speech Online Safety Bill requiring platforms to create a truth score for every user. This is similar to the social credit score system used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The CCP has also started to use artificial intelligence to test Chinese citizens’ loyalty to the government.
Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center posted a video indicating Chinese researchers use artificial intelligence (AI) technologies including biometrics to evaluate the loyalty of internet users, Reclaim The Net reported. The AI tech supposedly evaluates a person’s attentiveness and responses to “thought and political education.”
Penrose proposed “an index of the historic factual accuracy of material published by each user,” subject to vague limits, according to the proposal. U.K. Communications regulator Ofcom would regulate requirements around the truth score, adding to the already sweeping powers Ofcom would possess under the terms of the Online Safety Bill.
Ending “misinformation” has been used to increase censorship around the world within the last few years, as Reclaim The Net noted. While the Online Safety Bill was allegedly crafted to make the internet safer, its provisions have raised fears that the legislation would chill free speech online. The U.K. recently announced that the Online Safety Bill specifically targets so-called “Russian and hostile state disinformation.”
This invasive Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tech may be coming to Britain. The Chinese video from Hefei reportedly described a tool able to use brain waves and facial expressions “further [to] solidify [party members’] confidence and determination to be grateful to the party, listen to the party and follow the party.” The technology reportedly evaluates if the individual needs more “education.” The science center then quickly removed the video from its website and social media, Reclaim The Net reported.
This isn’t surprising, as the CCP’s invasive surveillance and data collection technology has been collecting detailed data about Chinese citizens for years.
The newly advertised tactics could also impact Americans, as CCP-affiliated TikTok collects U.S. users’ biometric data. New revelations show that TikTok data is accessible to China-based ByteDance, which is partially owned and controlled by the CCP.
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