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Rich Gurka: George Orwell Would Be Proud

January 14, 2021 by Villagers Voice

This is a column Rich wrote in 2019. We are republishing it in light of current events.

By now, most of you have probably heard that the Chinese government and Google have teamed up to develop a “social credit system” for the individual Chinese citizen. This Social Credit System is expected to be fully operational by 2020. If you do or say anything that the Chinese communist government thinks is unsuitable, you will be assigned “negative” points. 

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Filed Under: Letters to the Editor, Rich Gurka Tagged With: 1984, Orwell, social credit

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