China Bans Millions of Travellers

China’s National Public Credit Information Center on Friday released a report that said it stopped 17.5 million people from buying airplane tickets and 5.5 million from hopping on a train in 2018 because they had low “social credit” scores. Another 290,000 people were stopped from getting a high-paying senior management job.

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And that is from a limited trial. While communist countries like China and Russia have embraced capitalism in recent years, the authoritarian rule is as strong as ever, enhanced by technology.