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Propaganda Games: Sesame Credit - The True Danger of Gamification - Extra Credits

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Propaganda Games: Sesame Credit - The True Danger of Gamification - Extra Credits

An Extra Credits episode on China's Sesame Credit, which gamifies obedient citizenship through a social score. It covers how the system rewards conformity and pressures people through their friends' behavior.

HN commenters use it as a short, accessible primer on social credit and surveillance-driven gamification, linking it in many privacy and China threads.

20 Hacker News mentions · 2015–2018

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