{"id":31851,"date":"2018-09-24T08:54:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T16:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=31851"},"modified":"2018-09-24T08:54:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T16:54:18","slug":"chinas-digital-dictatorship-and-ours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/24\/chinas-digital-dictatorship-and-ours\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s &#8216;Digital Dictatorship&#8217;&#8230; and Ours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s &#8220;social credit&#8221; system is widely viewed as a kind of &#8220;digital dictatorship,&#8221; where not only does illegal or anti-social behavior result in lower scores and therefore less privileges, but political dissent also earns one lower &#8220;social credit&#8221; scores. While the anti-China crowd is busy pointing a finger at Beijing for such an authoritarian approach, a similar system is being put in place in the United States. How? Tune in to today&#8217;s Ron Paul Liberty Report:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MGk1ZZCcF1A\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s &#8220;social credit&#8221; system is widely viewed as a kind of &#8220;digital dictatorship,&#8221; where not only does illegal or anti-social behavior result in lower scores and therefore less privileges, but political dissent also earns one lower &#8220;social credit&#8221; scores. While the anti-China crowd is busy pointing a finger at Beijing for such an authoritarian approach, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-31851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31853,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31851\/revisions\/31853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31851"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=31851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}