The Epoch Times
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June 12, 2022 Updated: June 12, 2022
As new technology is developed to track peoples’ behavior and generate environmental and social credit scores, some state lawmakers are sounding the alarm that the United States may be following China in imposing behavioral ratings on its citizens.
China has been working since 2014 to impose a social credit system on its population that monitors, rewards, and punishes people according to how much their behavior conforms to government mandates. In contrast to China, the U.S. government is restrained from imposing social credit criteria on Americans due to its tradition of constitutional liberties and representative lawmaking.