Chinese 15-Minute cities are open air prisons. Cameras are everywhere and they are easy to lockdown.
Facial recognition is mandatory to enter and leave your neighborhood zone.
A special permit issued by the government is required if your friends want to visit you.
China's WeChat app tells users whether they are within a 500-meter radius of someone, who have the lowest social credit scores and are on the social credit blacklist.
It maps ppl near you with their social credit score, so you move away from undesirables & not lose your points.
It shows people if they're standing near someone in debt (to Chinese government, so they are blacklisted) — a part of its intrusive 'social credit' policy.
If you are on social credit blacklist, you become a ghost, a 'unperson' like in '1984', people are trying to get away from you like you have infectious disease.
Now, a minimum social credit score of 550 is required to charge your electric car and buy food from self-service grocery stores & vending machines in China.
If your score is below 550, you can't eat or travel. Chinese people are prisoners living in open air digital prison!
China names and shames citizens with the lowest Social Credit Scores, by displaying their faces, IDs, addresses...on billboards in LED trucks, driving around the town for all to see.
This also alerts who you may want to 'stay away' from, lest your social credit score goes down!!
China is integrating Central Bank Digital Currency into its Social Credit System.
To make payment with your face, you'll now need a minimum Social Credit Score of 650.
The face payment is powered by Alipay or WeChat, two Chinese digital wallet apps.
Once you are blacklisted by social credit system, you can no longer do online shopping in China. Because all online shopping sites require real name to login in, and you need to make payments with digital wallets Alipay and WeChat.
If your social credit score gets so low that you get 𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙙 by Chinese government, your children can be barred from attending high school.
#China publicly humiliates citizens with a 'D' Social Credit Rating by displaying their faces, IDs, and addresses...on billboards in LED trucks travelling around town for all to see.
Notifies you to individuals you should 'avoid' in order to keep your social credit score intact!
China forces farmers off the land and incarcerated them in high rise 15-Minute cities.
So control is now easier.
30,000 families - 100,000 people living in this neighborhood, which has everything including schools, pharmacy, restaurants, barbershops...within 15 minutes walk.
Chinese 15-minute cities are checkpoint cities.
If your vaccine passport expires or you are on the 'Social Credit Blacklist', when you try to leave the zone where you are registered to live in, immediately an alarm goes off.