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China is preventing people from traveling and working due to their social credit system. Their level of intrusion has no comparison to any other country. The level of intrusion into peoples lives is horrible and unprecedented. Its 1984 made manifest and no amount of garbage arguments is going to to be able to equate their surveillance state with any other country.
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You have to be kidding.
Here is one of thousands of articles on the subject. I would think with you being from china you would know that https://www.reuters.com/article/world/china-to-bar-people-with-bad-social-credit-from-planes-trains-idUSKCN1GS10Q/
What the heck here is two
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-social-credit-system-surveillance-cameras/
Three for good measure since you really don't want a source
https://www.wired.com/story/china-social-credit-system-explained/