Why China Is Using a Boy Band to Promote Orwellian Surveillance

Epoch Times: 

The Chinese regime released a music video to promote its Social Credit System, which monitors all activities of all people—including daily behavior, movement, online purchases, family, and friends—and assigns each person a “citizen score” that determines the level of freedom or repression to be enjoyed or endured.

The system is going to be implemented across all of China in 2020, and local governments have already begun setting it in motion.

In the music video, a handful of young Chinese celebrities give a glowing show of how they abide by the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) social control system, and play up how behaving with “integrity” and “trustworthiness,” according to the surveillance system’s requirements, raises their scores and benefits them.

This video, in particular, is directed at Chinese youth. It was produced by China Youth Credit Action, a program supervised by the CCP’s Communist Youth League and tasked with promoting the Social Credit System. According to Australia’s ABC News, the video had more than 340 million views on China’s Weibo and was mentioned in 2 million comments. It features China’s popular boy band TFBoys and a handful of celebrities including Xu Weizhou and Wei Daxun.

While the video has a light and happy tone, and uses lofty-sounding phrases, it’s important to remember what it represents. The system it promotes is the same one being used in places like Xinjiang, where ethnic Uyghurs are being monitored and thrown into concentration camps for violating the CCP’s laws on culture and religion.

Deceptive Terms

The message the video spread on Weibo, according to Australia’s ABC News, was that “youth should be trustworthy, credibility is valuable, every aspect of life contains the concept of integrity.”

Keep in mind that under the CCP, phrases such as “being trustworthy,” “having credibility,” and “acting with integrity” have very different meanings than they have in free countries. This specifically means being “trustworthy” in the eyes of the ruling communist regime, having “credibility” by never violating its totalitarian standards, and having “integrity” to always follow its will regardless of whether or not the regime can see your actions.  more here