China upgrades its Great Firewall

[Grey Havoc]

Via Slashdot:

China upgrades Great Firewall to defeat TLS tools

Just in time to ensure nobody can disagree that giving Xi five more years as president is the best idea ever

www.theregister.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

On a related note:

China Announces New Social Credit Law - Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a MIT Technology Review article, written by Zeyi Yang: It's easier to talk about what China's social credit system isn't than what it is. Ever since 2014, when China announced a six-year plan to build a system to reward actions that build trust in...

yro.slashdot.org

 

[sferrin]

Sounds like a puff piece designed to make the West relax. They forgot to mention China has apparently used it to punish all those involved in the "escape from Alcatraz the Apple factories" by zeroing out their social credit scores so they cannot use any services and are trapped wherever they are.

 

[Grey Havoc]

‘It’s game over’: How China used its technotyranny to crush dissent

Science fiction is becoming science fact as Communist Party uses its sophisticated abilities to chilling effect

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[Kat Tsun]

Sounds like a puff piece designed to make the West relax. They forgot to mention China has apparently used it to punish all those involved in the "escape from Alcatraz the Apple factories" by zeroing out their social credit scores so they cannot use any services and are trapped wherever they are.

Not much different than what I'd expect Facebook or Google to do to their striking workers, but they usually get fired on the spot. America merely adopted capitalism, Foxconn was born in it, molded by it.

 

[publiusr]

Bipartisan tyranny. Wunnerful

 

[Graham1973]

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