- A Chinese student had his enrollment at a university suspended because of his father’s bad social credit score.
- The father, surnamed Rao, had failed to repay a $29,900 loan and was added to a debtor blacklist that prevented a university from accepting his son.
- State media reported that the incident also caused Rao’s social credit score to drop.
- China is expected to roll out a national social credit system in 2020, but it remains to be seen if citizens will actually be given a “trustworthiness” score or if they’ll just be subjected to more blacklists.
- Either way, the punishment seems to have worked. Rao read more >>>
Source:: BusinessInsider.Com