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Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status”
(www.themoscowtimes.com)
So the credit score system in the US, but more?
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2024
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How many hoops did you have to jump through to land at that comparison?
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Russia can into tinpot dictator.
They made meow meow beans?
good timing, its my birthday today
Cool.
Cool cool cool.
They've taken everything subjective and unspoken about human interaction and reduced it to explicit, objective numbers. I've never felt so alive.
The social rating figures don’t affect [a person’s] life, the availability of services or the career trajectory in any way
unless you're gay...
There are no gay people in Russia.
shoots gun
Not anymore
Then what are they for? Like the government just puts up a leaderboard and leaves it at that.
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You can see why all the M-Ls on this site want Russia to win their fascist invasion. Clearly the Revolution lives.
Some .ml fellas can explain that this is good, actually. Oil oligarch kleptocracy with murdering political opponent characteristics is one of the most leftist governments possible, so everything they do is good.
These students either designed it as a subtle protest or they are in serious need of some dystopian literature in their curriculum.
It's likely both. A compromise between hoping to build something real in the half-assed world that is Russia, and between wish to protest against its half-assed totalitarianism.
Well this sounds a bit familiar...
Next step is adding a scoring system with penalties for certain behavior and it will be quite similar to the social system that is rolling out in China...
That's probably the inspiration, but like hell they'll manage to actually build something as functional.
I wouldn’t underestimate the engineering competence of Russians especially when it comes to autocratic surveillance tools. There are plenty of Russian-built tools and web apps that function quite well - Yandex, VK, etc. The west does not have a monopoly on innovation.
Yandex is a good example, VK - I'm not certain of that.
Anyway, what I meant is that such kind of social rating needs to source data from somewhere. That means integration with quite a lot of systems built for the Russian state, which often suck a lot. It's normal that half the time remote payments for utilities don't work, for example.
I mean, yeah, they can. But if it's going to be some nation-wide system for the government, the bureaucracy will practically kill this.
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The west does not have a monopoly on innovation.
Nope - but it does look like we have the "monopoly" of being able to call out bullshit openly and not fear falling out of a window. Or being stabbed.
Oh that's coming. Stay tuned.
Well, until the President decides otherwise, anyway.
Luckily "the West" isn't just the U.S. - it's also France, the U.K., Mexico and even Australia...
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Seems like RSSU is fishing for the government's money.
It's probably very badly implemented and doesn't work as described. In a sense this is good, but my point stands.
I sure hope you're right on it not working properly, for the common russkies' sake
This is literally the plot for a Black Mirror episode.
This is literally the plot for *China.
From. Nosedive to be specific.
I think for was actually the right word choice there, because Black Mirror in no way came up with the concept
Sure, makes sense from that perspective. 👌
or, for an example with better writing, a Community episode
Observers on social media compared the platform’s name “We” to the highly influential 1921 dystopian novel of the same name by Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin.
They actually couldn't choose a different name than the novel that was written specifically about this very dystopian subject? Did they use it as inspiration? Because that seems more than coincidence...
New feature is ... Putin has 0 points and is the goal to go to?
Don't feed the rusophobe Lemmy echo chamber!!
Make an instance that federates both with mainstream Lemmy and Lemmygrad if you want both sides - and trust me, you don't.
So am I to take it from your inference that the Russian Lemmy site is called Lemmygrad?
Do your own research if you really want to verify that claim but bring a hazmat suit.
You know what an inference is and seem curious about the world...that will not play well in Lemmygrad. Good luck and Godspeed, tho.
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The devs of this planet are lazy and rehashing content.
Let's see how the Make Russia China campaign goes!
I see the North Korea visit was pretty useful
Russia now has a social credit system just like china and also the united states
You see, in the States, your credit score is an indication of how likely you are to be responsible and comply with the terms of a loan or other bank-related contract. If you have a low score, you don’t get a loan, because the bank sees you as a risk that you will not give their money back. You can still live your life normally, even with a low score, and possibly even rebuild your score over time. Only what you do with money influences your credit score.
In China, the social credit score is an indication of how loyal you are to the regime. A low social credit score, which is earned by disrespecting the regime or not following the silliest of laws, forbids you from using public transport, buying stuff, or getting education.
You can’t miss that contrast.
Every banking system has some kind of credit score. Social scoring is what's relatively new and has to keep us on edge because also governments of mostly free societies have a natural interest in such systems.
Indeed, thank you for some lucidity.
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I give this news 5 MeowMeowBeenz.
“The social rating figures don’t affect [a person’s] life, the availability of services or the career trajectory in any way,” RSSU said on the platform’s website. “But who knows what these figures will mean for you in the future?”
Well that's a relief...
When was the last time an entity that generated stats about someone didn’t end up with those stats being used to the detriment of the individual - or at the very least for the profit of another?
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