The social credit score has yet another unflattering facet - new dystopian law that would give all social media users a ‘truth score.’
An amendment to a bill in the UK would require that all social media users be issued a "truth score" that predetermines the veracity of their posts, which is another example of the burdensome "social credit score" system.
The proposal, which would restrict "legal but harmful" content, was put out as an addition to the already abhorrent "Online Safety Bill" by Conservative Party politician John Penrose.
"Like something out of dystopian fiction, Penrose, the MP for Weston-super-Mare, has proposed that the government forces online platforms to maintain a score of how truthful a person is, determined by their past statements," writes Dan Frieth.
According to the amendment, all users who "produced user-generated content," published news, or just wrote "comments" or "reviews" ought to be evaluated by the relevant platform and assigned a ratin...
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