China's social credit system blocked 11M flights and 4M train trips
&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&#x27; faces began playing at movie theatres, on buses, and on public noticeboards with a voiceover that said: &quot;Come, come, look at these [debtors]. It&#x27;s a person who borrows money and doesn&#x27;t pay it back.&quot;<p>Assuming that&#x27;s being reported accurately...wow.<p>Although I&#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&#x27;s main global competitors in a negative light.