The worrying implications of China's social-credit project
In case HackerNews is wondering, this is what a 50 Cent Party member looks like.<p>Seriously.<p>The comments  contain all the classic deflections of <i>wumao</i> posts: the endless whataboutisms, claims that China is peaceful, minimizing  the situation in China, outright lies, a seemingly endless and authoritative knowledge of any situation in China you care to mention that <i>always</i> parrots the government line...<p>Everyone grows up learning a version of the Boy Who Cried Wolf stories. The moral is: when someone willfully engages in deception, it destroys their creditworthiness, even when they might be telling the truth later.<p>Maybe you aren&#x27;t <i>wumao</i>. Fine - but the Chinese government has invested years and billions in utterly destroying the trustworthiness of your viewpoints by employing people who <i>sound exactly, 100% like you</i>. Sorry buddy, it undermines all of the possibly valid points you are making.