@AlPage

Department store bathroom smokers will annoyingly persist. Cameras won't be installed in WCs anytime soon...

but outside smokey water closets, the advent of A.I. surveillance w/ automatic social credit deductions may pick up the slack in the cat & mouse enforcement game.

Newly developed machine learning cameras will be upgraded with capabilities of identifying civilians by their walking gait and body shape in the event faces are concealed from view. Detection accuracy will be in question, but incrementally fine-tuned. That’s the neural network power of machine learning.

This harks back to the discussion from another thread on why vehicles have begun yielding to pedestrians at intersections.

Rules are abided when laws are strictly and automatically enforced. Civility ensues when drivers receive instant text messages of ticket penalties as caught by automated traffic cameras. Just don't read the messages while driving.

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In regards to popular online gaming, which Chinese youths are seemingly addicted to these days. It’s my understanding Tencent Holdings Limited (parent of WeChat/QQ) monopolizes the gaming industry in China.

Piggyback off the omnipresence of smartphones, Tencent’s multiplayer online battles such as role-playing Honour of Kings harbor 200 million monthly subscribers. This and other popular blockchain esports require players to login and verify age in order to connect with the vast online community of gamers in real-time. These aren’t the standalone, offline games one would download from torrent magnets.

Like Alipay/Wepay cashless payment services @tiger mentioned, players’ personal records and transaction history are logged. Gaming accounts with mandatory age verification are linked to police database. So for the vast majority, they can and will be traced.

Tencent will readily hand over jurisdiction of user profiles if called upon from higher power. Minors or adolescents who play nonstop would be automatically logged off from the games. The "nanny" eyes of T.J. Eckleburg will be watching your child.

@michael

Then POTUS Bill Clinton couldn’t dissuade the caning of American graffiti kid in Singapore. Granted punishment strokes were reduced as a show of diplomatic goodwill.

The most infamous among Singapore's laws was forbidding gum chewing. If memory serves right, the gum ban was the city-state's response to a bygone social protest of sticking gum all over the transit system.

That said, officers eschewed enforcement of gum chewing. Trivial restrictions are regularly overlooked to avoid reigniting social unrest. Outside Orchard Road, locals chew gums (smuggled from Malaysian border) or spit regardless. After all, they're just gum, not guns.

as for ranking we is all being ranked. we are born ranked. our choices including behavior can influenc our rank as we go thtough life both up and down. there is class, education, credit score, employment record and more. our rank today is the family we were born into plus or minus the cjhoices

we have made in life so far.

@Michael - how about better education along with stricter enforcement of existing laws and rules.
I once knew a Chinese father of three who one day realised that he had somehow collected fifty points on his license! "no problem" he said and just called some local police chief to invite him out for dinner.

@michael2015 How about no social engineering?

@geezer: social engineering gets done one way or another, consciously or unconsciously. Important to understand who the engineers really are, how it is done, and where the engineering plans really come from. Perhaps it's easier to see them, as a foreigner, in China than 'at home', although that doesn't mean we see them accurately.

Easy to punish voices that the authorities want to silence

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i think that the rich and powerful likely to find ways of gaming the system. the whole thing opens up opportunities for hacking enterprise,

The social credit system in the US?

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