{"id":122611,"date":"2021-02-09T18:33:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T23:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=122611"},"modified":"2021-02-09T18:42:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T23:42:35","slug":"congressman-mark-green-cancel-culture-similar-to-chinas-social-credit-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congressman-mark-green-cancel-culture-similar-to-chinas-social-credit-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Mark Green: Cancel Culture Similar To China\u2019s \u2018Social Credit System\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcongressman-mark-green-cancel-culture-similar-to-chinas-social-credit-system%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=122611&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/MarkGreen.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In an op-ed for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/cancel-culture-similar-communist-china-playbook-rep-mark-green\">Fox News<\/a>, Rep. Mark Green (R-CA) highlighted how cancel culture \u2014 &nbsp;the impulse, among certain aspects of society, to destroy an individual\u2019s reputation over statements that run contrary to progressive dogma \u2014 has eery similarities with China\u2019s totalitarian methods of social control through its \u201csocial credit system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u201cAs authoritarian rule in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/china\">China<\/a> reaches new heights with the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s implementation of a social credit system, the United States should do everything in its power to resist following the same path,\u201d argued Green. \u201cChina\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/socialism\">social credit system<\/a>, designed to track every Chinese citizen\u2019s social and economic behavior, is the CCP\u2019s attempt at total control over its citizens\u2019 lives. While the United States might not have an official social credit system, the radical left \u2013 through cancel culture and censorship of ideas \u2013 has created something that\u2019s eerily similar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Green noted that modern totalitarians have wisely shifted their methods from the constant threat of violence or imprisonment to the constant threat of being ostracized by an all-too-willing populace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than threats of physical force or imprisonment, China\u2019s social credit system uses social shaming and ostracization to ensure total control of citizens. Anything from jaywalking, traffic violations, smoking in a non-smoking area, missing a payment or disturbing neighbors is used to determine one\u2019s social credit score,\u201d he noted. \u201c\u2018Bad\u2019 behavior lowers a person\u2019s score and can make it difficult for them to buy, sell, travel, get loans or send their children to college. \u2018Very bad\u2019 behavior, such as political dissent, can get someone and their family members blacklisted, making it difficult for them to function in society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An episode of Netflix\u2019s \u201cBlack Mirror\u201d starring Bryce Dallas Howard unflinchingly illustrated how this type of social credit system would play out in a more \u201copen\u201d society like the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Black Mirror S03E01 Airport scene\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YrpK90bHO2U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>According to Mark Green, the cooperation between government, Big Tech, and American citizens could create \u201ca frog boiling slowly in a pot\u201d situation wherein we succumb to a totalitarian society without ever fully realizing it. Some examples he listed:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What are the signs that the U.S. has its own social credit system? What else do you call it when a Democrat senator&nbsp;demands&nbsp;Republicans be put on a no-fly-list for how they voted, or when an editor is&nbsp;forced to resign&nbsp;for allowing a Republican to publish an opinion piece in the editorial section of his newspaper?<\/p>\n<p>Big tech has increased its censorship of those they disagree with as well. Before the election, Twitter&nbsp;suppressed&nbsp;the New York Post\u2019s story on Hunter Biden, YouTube&nbsp;removed&nbsp;two videos from a Senate hearing about COVID treatments, and in another instance, Google&nbsp;blocked&nbsp;ads from a legal group against court packing. Then Amazon, Apple&nbsp;and Google exercised their monopoly power to&nbsp;deplatform Parler, the biggest conservative alternative to Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>And this is just the beginning of the left\u2019s activity to silence dissent.<\/p>\n<p>A PBS lawyer was&nbsp;caught on camera&nbsp;calling for reeducation camps for the kids of conservatives, and numerous political pundits have called for cable companies to&nbsp;deplatform&nbsp;Fox News.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Though far-left progressives have largely dismissed the existence of cancel culture while simultaneously encouraging censorship,&nbsp;celebrities from across the political spectrum have denounced cancel culture. Speaking with Fox News, Marvel actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/don-cheadle-cancel-culture-is-not-really-real\">Don Cheadle stated<\/a> that he believed cancel culture to be overblown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess it\u2019s real to the degree that you listen to that noise. I don\u2019t know that people are purely canceled because \u2026 I don\u2019t know that there are any pure irredeemable situations unless it\u2019s been deemed, not that you have said something off, but that you are that way and that there is stuff in your past that is consistent with that thing that you said, that one-off thing that looked like a one-off moment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/don-cheadle-cancel-culture-is-not-really-real\">&nbsp;Don Cheadle: Cancel Culture Is \u2018Not Really&nbsp;Real\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an op-ed for Fox News, Rep. 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