Information Control and Public Support for Social Credit Systems in China

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Critics see China’s social credit system (SCS) as a tool of surveillance and repression. Yet opinion surveys in China find considerable public support for the SCS. We explain this puzzle by focusing on citizens’ lack knowledge regarding repressive nature digital dictatorships, which can be attributed to (1) invisible targeted repression associated with (2) government propaganda censorship further concealing its potential. A field survey experiment 750 college students three Chinese regions shows that revealing SCS’s potential significantly reduces system, but emphasizing social-order-maintenance function does not increase support. Observational evidence from nationwide 2,028 netizens show is higher if citizens knew about SCS through state media. Our findings highlight role information framing shaping surveillance.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Politics

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['0022-3816', '1468-2508']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/718358