cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/536301
The Russia’s State Social University (RSSU) has launched a “social rating” platform that claims to build a person’s “social portrait” with possible applications in future government policies.
Named “We,” the platform promises to determine a user’s comparative “social status” based on a survey that includes questions about income, family status, benefits, creditworthiness, criminal record, lifestyle and state awards, among others.
“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?”
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. [The novel “We” describes a world of harmony and conformity within a united totalitarian state. It inspired British author George Orwell to write his own novel, “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, which was published in 1949.]
Is it called Facebook?
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This is literally the plot for a Black Mirror episode.
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. 👌
This is literally the plot for *China.
or, for an example with better writing, a Community episode
So the credit score system in the US, but more?
Nah. Troll trap. No fun.
How many hoops did you have to jump through to land at that comparison?
Oh shit it’s meow meow beans
People keep commenting this. What’s the context?
It’s a from a Community episode.
Putinism as it is. Oligarchy and survailance.
Russia can into tinpot dictator.
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.
They made meow meow beans?
good timing, its my birthday today
They’ve taken everything subjective and unspoken about human interaction and reduced it to explicit, objective numbers. I’ve never felt so alive.
Cool.
Cool cool cool.
New feature is … Putin has 0 points and is the goal to go to?
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.
I see the North Korea visit was pretty useful
Named “We,” the platform promises to determine a user’s comparative “social status” based on a survey that includes questions about income, family status, benefits, creditworthiness, criminal record, lifestyle and state awards, among others.
Criminal record: putin’s scoreboard of excellency https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3174724/russias-putin-decorates-army-unit-accused-ukraine-war-crimes
How many putinpoints do they get for using a 3 to 13million$ Kh-101 cruise missile to bomb a children’s hospital chemo ward?
approximately the same thing an idf soldier gets for doing the same thing.
they have social credit scores in Israel too? Is is netanyahupoints or just putinpoints as well? (better have a universal currency for war crimes, including building military headquarters under hospitals with stolen aid like hamas)
Are you saying that Ukrainians are the same as Hamas?
Nah, probably just that idf and the Russian army are both filled with ear criminals.
Ear criminals? Are their covers that bad?
But why do you need to go fetch Israel as the ultimate measure that you need to understand the egregiousness of what russia is doing to Ukraine…when what russia is doing to Ukraine is both the crimes of Israel and hamas combined:
the crime of Israel’s brutality without regard for human life
and
the crime of hamas’s terroristic persistent attempt to destroy their neighbour at the expense of its own people
…there is no comparison here.
The comparison is that they both have large amounts of war criminals. You can compare sections of subjects, you know.
What about personality? You know the thing that actually matters in a person…
I’d say bombing children’s hospitals says a lot about someone’s personality.
so, Facebook?
Let’s see how the Make Russia China campaign goes!
