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@ -598,6 +598,19 @@ But content filtering shouldn't be the foundation of our systems.
*** Reputation scoring
Reputation scoring, at the very least, leads us back to the problems
of high-school like pandering for popularity.
At the very worst, it results in a credit system that is
[[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/13/your-credit-score-is-racist-heres-why][disproportionally racist]].
The effort to categorize people based on their reputation is of
increased interest to both large companies and large governments
around the world.
An ongoing initiative in China is named the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System][Social Credit System]].
The effect of a reputation hit can be [[https://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-system-punishments-and-rewards-explained-2018-4#a-prototype-blacklist-already-exists-and-has-been-used-to-punish-people-8][wide-spread]] and
[[https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/12/12/chinas-chilling-social-credit-blacklist][coercive]].
We need to do better.
*** Going back to centralization
** A way forward: networks of consent