I agree with the article's assessment that the US also has a social credit scores, but:
- it's not at all the same as an aggregated government-assigned score (though we may be on the road to that)
- the take of "things are so bad in China and basically the same here" are very naive; live in China for 5+ years and I guarantee you'll have a different view
Regarding the second point: I know right? If a lot more peeps were to have a chat with the average chinese netizen, I think it would shatter a lot of misconceptions about the People's Republic.
The problem if you’d have to live there quite a while and becomes friends and earn peoples trust before they’ll confide in you what they really think. That’s why so many of these takes about China are wrong.
oops - I mistakenly omitted the word "not"; meant to say "things are not so bad in China and basically the same here"