Upset About Facebook Invading Your Privacy? Be Glad You Don’t Live in China: New at Reason

Upset because Facebook and Google invade your privacy? Be glad you don’t live in China, writes John Stossel.

Facebook and other Western apps are banned there. The government views their openness as a threat. So the Chinese use platforms like WeChat and Alibaba.

Now the Chinese government takes data from those platforms to assign all people who use them a “social credit score.”

In other words, the government monitors your web activity and gives you a grade. Your purchases, social interactions, and political activity will determine what privileges you get.

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