China banned 23 million people from buying plane or train tickets last year because their social credit scores were too low, according to the Associated Press, which obtained a copy of a government report.
The government rolled out the travel ban on people with low social credit scores last May. According to a report from China’s National Public Credit Information Center from last week, 17.5 million people have been blocked from purchasing airplane tickets, while 5.5 million could not buy high-speed train tickets. These people had become “discredited” for unspecified behavioral crimes. That’s up from only 6.15 million citizens being blocked from taking flights as of 2017, according to China’s supreme court.
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