China begins plans to gamify government obedience

[cave hermit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHcTKWiZ8sI

Is this really the future of China? Do you guys think people are overreacting, or is this just as bad as it sounds?
Apparently right now it's an opt in program, but it'll become mandatory in 2020.

[Xyga]

What. This is just China catching up with the rest of the world its own shitty and useless way, as usual.
Nobody will give a fuck over there anyway, they have other serious issues, like money, money, money, money, family, and pollution.

People need to stop fantasizing about China, real oppression in this cuntry happens in areas and at times foreigners have no idea about.
Basically because they ignore all aspects of the Chinese life and how it's organized (or rather how big of a mess it is).
The level of information the non-chinese-speaking media are relaying is barely tabloid-level, seriously.

[Skykid]

If you want to see something genuinely scary, dissect and analyse the way Americans have already been taught to think by the power of their government and news media.

I'm in a position to tell you a little about China, however: This is the most lawless country I've ever lived in. People do whatever the fuck they want. Nearly every conceivable law is ignored, and offenders who are caught are rarely punished if they can pay their way out of it, and only the high profile cases are made an example of and considered newsworthy. I was walking in Guangzhou yesterday and a guy drove onto the fucking pavement, around an overpass column, and back onto the road to overtake traffic.

Nobody cares about any law. They seem almost oblivious to it. An attempt to 'gamify' your social friends circle is unnecessary, since China has its social 'face' system whereby they practice an intricate and careful process of associating with different people to different degrees based on how it affects their social standing personally. That makes the entire idea redundant.

But then the entire thing is redundant. The party introduces hundreds of new laws and ideas in a year and most if not all end up completely ignored and lost in the passage of time. Most people don't even know they exist.

Perversely, I'm actually for the enforcement of a few laws in China! I'd like to see a fucking policeman get off his ass once in a while and reprimand some of these assholes who do whatever they want with no regard for other people. See that 'No Smoking' sign in the elevator? With the monetary fine? Nobody cares. Don't do this, don't do that. Nobody cares. CCTV? Where? I crashed on my bike and needed the footage - it didn't exist. No operating cameras in that area.

Basically Chinese people are almost too free in my opinion. In some ways its bad, in others it's good. I'm torn. I like the idea of living free, I just don't like it when it encroaches on my own sensibilities or sense of manners. But on the whole these guys are too busy getting jobs, building businesses and buying houses - instead of losing them - to care about anything. Including paying any mind to a government social network model.

[cave hermit]

You know, honestly I'm happy to know that I was just overreacting; Thinking about it I don't know why I was getting so worked up over something that wouldn't really affect me regardless.

[Skykid]

You know, honestly I'm happy to know that I was just overreacting; Thinking about it I don't know why I was getting so worked up over something that wouldn't really affect me regardless.

It was a fine piece of western alarmist propaganda that skims the surface of a dizzyingly deep culture and, as xyga said, a country's government trying to do something to develop it with more harebrained ideas.

The elephant in the room is really that you know about this government/social media scheme at all. Try asking Facebook or Twitter how much of your personal information is shared with the government and you're likely to come up blank.