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Feb 13, 2023 β€’ 6 tweets β€’ 4 min read β€’ Read on X
Do NOT follow China's steps!
It's a nightmare.

15 MINUTE CITIES in πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ China. Each neighborhood zone is separated by a fence with barbed wire. There are 2 to 4 Gates per zone. If you want to leave your zone you will need your QR code/Covid passport and a face scan.
Building China's '15-minute city'
Chinese people were fleeing lockdown in #15minutecities, which are often enclosed by a wall with barbed wire fence and the entrance gate being guarded.

A lot of people starved to death during lockdown
China started #15minutecities program long long ago.
In 2016, the Shanghai Master Plan put forward the idea of β€œ15-minute community life circle”
Check this paper:Study on the Layout of 15-Minute Community-Life Circle
scirp.org/journal/paperi… Image
In China's #15minutecities, you need to scan your face and show your QR code COVID passport to get into hospitals.

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Nov 3, 2023
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's called a "map of deadbeat debtors."Β 

It shows people if they're standing near someone in debt (to Chinese government, so they are blacklisted) β€” 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.
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Oct 30, 2023
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.
Read 7 tweets
Oct 19, 2023
A look inside China's social credit system.

Now, a minimum social credit score of 550 is required to buy food from unmanned grocery stores.
China is integrating Central Bank Digital Currency into its Social Credit System.

To charge your electric car, you'll now need a minimum Social Credit Score of 550. These charger stations run on Alipay, a Chinese digital wallet.
Screenshot:
To charge your electric car, you'll now need a minimum Social Credit Score of 550. Image
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Oct 12, 2023
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.
China's Social Credit Scoring System

If your social credit score gets so low that you get π˜½π™‘π™–π™˜π™ π™‘π™žπ™¨π™©π™šπ™™ 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!
Read 4 tweets
Feb 22, 2023
China's surveillance state starts from digital ID

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Citizens must apply for a ID card, which contains information: name, gender, nationality, date of birth, address, ID number, and biometric information, such as photos, facial features, palm features, fingerprints, DNA.
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In China, facial recognition (digital ID) is mandatory to get into airport and board your plane now.

This was in 2019 Beijing airport
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In China, facial recognition (digital ID) is mandatory to get into the train station and take your train now.

This was in 2018 Shanghai train station.
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Feb 16, 2023
When cash goes digital, bringing the risks of exclusion, discrimination, and surveillance...Chinese government think facial recognition gives them new instrument that will perfect their rule.

Meet China's Grab and Go grocery store and their numbers are growing fast
American Grab and Go grocery store.
Look at those surveillance cameras!
Xiamen City, 2018
Travellers scanned their ID cards and faces to get into the train station

China builds the world’s largest state security apparatus, including a massive facial recognition surveillance network, a corresponding biometric database, and a national ID card system.
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