• RandoCalrandian@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        6
        ·
        1 year ago

        As clever as you think you’re being, it is an important difference.

        Mostly because in the US you can choose not to use it, in china choosing not to use it affects your social credit score, and whether you can buy a house or ride the bus.

        Slight difference in potential consequences for benign behavior.

        • jmp242@sopuli.xyz
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          6
          ·
          1 year ago

          I don’t know if the US is that far ahead here - we have the regular credit score which is used for all sorts of stuff it really ought’t be. And it’s proprietary, so honestly who knows what goes into it. We just get hidden companies rather than the government - and often the government hides behind the companies so they don’t have to do pesky things like get a warrant. I’m not sure which is better.

          • RandoCalrandian@kbin.social
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            3
            arrow-down
            2
            ·
            1 year ago

            I agree it’s 6 versus a half dozen

            But the layer of obscurity at least gives the illusion they aren’t supposed to abuse it so much, which helps massively during breaches or trying to get your data or have it deleted.

            I doubt any of that is even possible in china (i have no citation for this)

        • 133arc585
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          in china choosing not to use it affects your social credit score, and whether you can buy a house or ride the bus.

          Do you have any source that says that using TikTok is mandatory in China, or that not using it does what you’re asserting?

          • RandoCalrandian@kbin.social
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            arrow-down
            3
            ·
            1 year ago

            The social credit score is mandatory, and what you watch on it is absolutely used to adjust your credit score.

            So no, i don’t have a direct source that says “you must use this app or your credit score goes down”, i have a reasonable informed idea that it probably does, based on china’s current treatment of it’s citizens.

            Why, do you happen to a single or any even tangentially related source pretending it doesn’t?

            • 133arc585
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              3
              arrow-down
              2
              ·
              edit-2
              1 year ago

              No of course you can’t opt out of the social credit score.

              what you watch on it is absolutely used to adjust your credit score.

              And yet another bold claim that you are even being so bold as to say is absolutely true. Do you have evidence for this one, either?

              I’m asking you to defend your claim that not using TikTok specifically affects your social credit score.

              So no, i don’t have a direct source that says “you must use this app or your credit score goes down”, i have a reasonable informed idea that it probably does, based on china’s current treatment of it’s citizens.

              This absolutely doesn’t follow. Can you elaborate on your logic here? There is no obvious line of reasoning from “china’s current treatment of its citizens” to “TikTok is mandatory”. Your imagination is not evidence of something.

              Why, do you happen to a single or any even tangentially related source pretending it doesn’t?

              I’m not the one asserting that failure to use TikTok negatively affects your social credit score; no, I can’t find a source that explicitly states “not using TikTok doesn’t affect your social credit score”, because that’s not how this works. You make a positive assertion you provide evidence to back that up.

            • wimpysocks@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              1 year ago

              The social credit score is mandatory, and what you watch on it is absolutely used to adjust your credit score.

              So no, i don’t have a direct source that says “you must use this app or your credit score goes down”, i have a reasonable informed idea that it probably does, based on china’s current treatment of it’s citizens.

              So basically you’re saying you have a hunch? What a bunch of nonsense.

              Can you prove that Iraq doesn’t have weapons of mass destruction?