China banned millions of people with poor social credit from transportation in 2018
China banned people from buying plane or train tickets 23 million times last year because their social credit scores were too low,
according to the Associated Press, which obtained a copy of a government report.
The government rolled out the travel ban on people with low social credit scores
last May. According to a report from Chinaโs National Public Credit Information Center from last week, people have been blocked 17.5 million times from purchasing airplane tickets, and 5.5 million times from buying high-speed train tickets. These people had become โdiscreditedโ for unspecified behavioral crimes. Thatโs up from only 6.15 million citizens being blocked from taking flights as of 2017, according to Chinaโs supreme court.
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As part of the system, the Chinese government also employs
a public blacklist of those who have been found guilty of crimes in court and punishes them partly by limiting their ability to buy plane and train tickets.
China banned millions of people with poor social credit from transportation in 2018