<story><title>China&apos;s social credit system blocked 11M flights and 4M train trips</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-system-blocked-people-taking-flights-train-trips-2018-5?IR=T</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>It is quite the opposite: China is much crazier than the western press makes it out to be. If western media reported things about China too accurately, no one would believe them.&lt;p&gt;You really only have to read Chinese media to get this, reading even state-owned media (like China daily or global times) will leave you with a much more negative impression of China than reading CNN or NyTimes.</text></item><item><author>davesque</author><text>&amp;gt; Some provinces play a recorded message when someone tries to call a blacklisted debtor, informing the caller that the person they want to speak with has outstanding debts. And in May, a short cartoon with the photographs of debtors&amp;#x27; faces began playing at movie theatres, on buses, and on public noticeboards with a voiceover that said: &amp;quot;Come, come, look at these [debtors]. It&amp;#x27;s a person who borrows money and doesn&amp;#x27;t pay it back.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Assuming that&amp;#x27;s being reported accurately...wow.&lt;p&gt;Although I&amp;#x27;m always led to wonder to what extent the facts in articles like this are exaggerated in order to portray one of the US&amp;#x27;s main global competitors in a negative light.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nimrod0</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re giving the wrong impression. Let&amp;#x27;s parse this a bit. China is &amp;quot;crazier&amp;quot; in that it&amp;#x27;s different in a way that&amp;#x27;s hard to explain in Western discourse. In order to analogize for the reader, quite inadequately really, the portrayal becomes &amp;quot;exaggerated&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;incomprehensible&amp;quot;. To the extent that what&amp;#x27;s different and unusual is generally perceived as &amp;quot;negative&amp;quot; -- because if they were positive you&amp;#x27;d be doing that in your society -- the portrayal of China tends to be negative. Both views are valid.</text></comment>
<story><title>China&apos;s social credit system blocked 11M flights and 4M train trips</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-system-blocked-people-taking-flights-train-trips-2018-5?IR=T</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>It is quite the opposite: China is much crazier than the western press makes it out to be. If western media reported things about China too accurately, no one would believe them.&lt;p&gt;You really only have to read Chinese media to get this, reading even state-owned media (like China daily or global times) will leave you with a much more negative impression of China than reading CNN or NyTimes.</text></item><item><author>davesque</author><text>&amp;gt; Some provinces play a recorded message when someone tries to call a blacklisted debtor, informing the caller that the person they want to speak with has outstanding debts. And in May, a short cartoon with the photographs of debtors&amp;#x27; faces began playing at movie theatres, on buses, and on public noticeboards with a voiceover that said: &amp;quot;Come, come, look at these [debtors]. It&amp;#x27;s a person who borrows money and doesn&amp;#x27;t pay it back.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Assuming that&amp;#x27;s being reported accurately...wow.&lt;p&gt;Although I&amp;#x27;m always led to wonder to what extent the facts in articles like this are exaggerated in order to portray one of the US&amp;#x27;s main global competitors in a negative light.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway505938</author><text>If it&amp;#x27;s that much crazier, why is it whenever I visited China it didn&amp;#x27;t seem crazy at all? Are they that good at hiding things from foreigners?&lt;p&gt;I should add that I don&amp;#x27;t stick to the expat bubble and I can understand Mandarin.&lt;p&gt;Reading China Daily and the Global Times, you also get stories about all the good things that happen in China. So it definitely seems more well balanced. Whereas the Western press seems to only focus on the negative and sensationalist pieces.</text></comment>