Russian University Launches ‘Social Rating’ Platform - The Moscow Times
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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.

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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.]

  • phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 months ago

    How about: no.

    Also how about: even China admits is a shit show, and they’re desperately trying to fix the issue by not only loosening the baby laws, they are actively pushing people to have babies and for some “unknown” reason they don’t wanna.

    Seriously, all toundo is post dumb memes and slogans.

    Are you 14 or something? I thought I was talking to an adult but I seem to have been mistaken

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      even China admits is a shit show

      Go ahead. Lets see your work. Are you referring to a specific statement or is this bluster?

      they’re desperately trying to fix the issue by not only loosening the baby laws, they are actively pushing people to have babies

      They’ve been ratcheting and loosening their One Child Policy (now closer to a 2.3 Child Policy) for half a century. But then so has every other country with a functioning census bureau.

      all toundo is post dumb memes and slogans

      Westerners were outright panicked about “Overpopulation” for half my adult life. Then the 2008 financial crash happened and someone noticed a change in the second derivative of population trends. And now we get an article a week about how we’ll be entirely babyless inside the next generation.

      Are you 14 or something?

      That would make me, what? Three years your senior? Show some respect.