Ep. 2128 Does China Really Have a "Social Credit System"?

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Tom Woods

News, Government, Politics

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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It's a commonplace that in China people have a "social credit score" that is affected by their political views and activities, and which restricts them from exercising basic rights. Is this true?

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0:00.0	The Tom Woods Show, Episode 2128.
0:03.0	Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:07.6	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here.
0:11.3	The Tom Woods Show.
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0:32.0	Hey folks, Tom Woods here.
0:33.2	I'm joined today by Scott Freeman,
0:35.0	who is a Shanghai-based entrepreneur.
0:38.2	And I read an article that he wrote.
0:40.0	He's an Austrian economist who has a,
0:43.2	or at least as a contributor to a very interesting
0:45.4	substack, Austrian China.
0:47.7	We'll link to that at Tom Woods.com slash 2128.
0:51.1	And there he disputes the idea that there is a widespread
0:55.5	so-called social credit system at work in China.
0:58.8	It's just a commonplace taken for granted by everybody
1:01.3	in the US that that's what they have there.
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