doubt only Japanese are required this, most likely they’re just the first to report it
They’re not, and it’s not new (it even says this in the article). They’re the last to report it, its news bait because it’s a hot topic. Now everyones clicked and they got their ad dollars.
China already set the bar on this one and America had already started testing it out. Regardless this is disgusting. The world does not need everyone to have a “social credit score”.
* writes None in box requesting social media accounts *This guy is suspicious. To be sent to El Salvador concentration camp.
Very inefficient when they can just ask FBI, NSA, or any of their counterparts in other countries about people online records. Or they can just arrest high profile person like telegram founder to give access to the logs.
This is not new.
It’s getting worse than North Korea! But I guess they just used that as inspiration along with Taliban and Putin
