Great discussion and stimulating questions! Thanks Hertie School and Wiebke Rabe for hosting!

Had a lot of fun working on this; the diversity of Chinese expert opinion on social credit would stun most foreign observers

“First test & learn, and innovation will burst.” The motto of the the distinctive localised #SocialCredit piloting in 🇨🇳, which resulted in 653 initiatives in 2016. Great presentation by Adam Knight, University of Oxford, at @RobSchuCentre’s workshop on China’s #SocialCreditSystem.

Update: marking PRC 70th bday with new PhD in Chinese Studies as part of project “The Smart State: Big Data, AI and Law in China” under watchful eye of Roger Christmas (China Digital). Focus will be on social credit. As such, I feel the time for Twitter lurking is over. Here goes...

One for the Sino-masochists

Wow. Such conflation of topics. Social credit is scary, though not for any of the reasons stated here. Very counterproductive; this kind of uninformed analogy is cited readily by Ch officials seeking to discredit other criticisms leveraged against CCP

Speaking on techno-orientalism and bifurcation of the Chinese web at #YCWLauChina2019. Great questions and a v engaged audience! YoungChinaWatchers Lau China Institute, King's College London

OMG! Did you know your social credit score in China dictates your place in the customer service queue???? ... nytimes.com/2019/11/04/bus…

Nice to be able to support our Leiden University - Faculty of Humanities PhD researcher Adam Knight at the #digitalasia2019 conference as he presents on a local pilot scheme in #China’s push to establish a #SocialCredit system.

Thanks Florian! Great questions and a receptive audience

When Global Times correspondents start to quote Les Mis songs that call for revolution, you know something's not quite right. (Double irony given HK protesters' penchant for exactly the same number - and Chen Qingqing's voracious hatred towards them)

It's 2020. Time to discuss: China's Social Credit System, where are we now? Event with Florian Schneider, Liu Jun, Rogier Creemers, and Adam Knight.

Cracks in the facade. People's Daily (Chinese) reports on shouts of "Fake, it's all fake" by residents in Wuhan, directed towards Vice Premier Sun Chuanlan on his potemkin-style tour of a local quarantine zone. Tweet on PD English since deleted, but still visible in Chinese

This is probably the best primer on China's cyber architecture available at the moment. Great work by our friends EU Cyber Direct!

With #AAS2020 cancelled and London going #covidcrazy, I am social distancing in style halfway up a mountain in Wales for the next week. No internet, no plumbing. Time to crack on with some theory...

Possibly too late to register, but there'll be a video after the matter...speaking tonight with Roger Christmas and YoungChinaWatchers on the latest updates to China's social credit system eventbrite.co.uk/e/ycw-ln-a-dis…