Writing on the Fox News website, U.S. Rep. Mark Green (R-Ga.) warned Americans about the radical left’s “Culture of cancellation” and the trend toward speech censorship, highlighting that such censorship is similar to the Chinese Communist Party‘s script for using social credit systems to control the public.
He writes that speech censorship is everywhere in mainland China, but we should be alarmed when we see it in our own backyard. As the CCP’s authoritarian rule reaches new heights with the implementation of a social credit system, the United States should do everything in its power to avoid going down the same path.
“Mainland China’s social credit system, designed to track the social and economic behavior of every Chinese citizen, is a tool for the CCP to try to gain complete control over the lives of its citizens. While the United States does not have an official social credit system, the radical left has attempted to create a similar, creepy credit system by removing censorship from speech and thought.” He said.
The purpose of the CCP’s social credit system: to make the Chinese obey and not think independently
Green begins by exposing the horrors of CCP censorship.
He writes that while totalitarians of the past kept lists of dissidents in paper files, the CCP digitizes all citizens’ personal information, including facial recognition information, biometric information and intensive tracking data.
When comparing the CCP’s social credit system to the threat of force or imprisonment, Green says the CCP’s social credit system uses more social shaming and exclusion to ensure complete control over its citizens. Behaviors ranging from jaywalking, violating traffic rules, smoking in non-smoking areas, missing payments or bothering neighbors are all used to determine a person’s social credit score.
“‘Bad’ behavior lowers a person’s score, making it difficult for them to buy or sell, travel, take out a loan or send a child to college. ‘Worse’ behavior, such as political dissent, can get a person and his or her Family blacklisted, making it difficult for them to do anything in society.” Green said.
He then exposed the purpose of the CCP’s social credit system: The CCP’s social credit system is about power and obedience, which means “those who obey me will prosper and those who disobey me will die. It seeks to mold citizens into the CCP’s ideal of individuals who don’t ask questions, don’t disobey, and don’t think independently.
Greene warns: The far left is pushing a social credit system in the U.S. similar to that of the Chinese Communist Party
“Looking at the Chinese Communist Party’s authoritarian system, it’s easy to think that this could never happen in the United States. However, after hearing the voices of the far left calling for the silencing of conservatives, and after seeing tech giants and corporate giants banding together to deny conservatives their legal rights, I’m beginning to think that America might be like a frog being boiled in warm water.” Green said.
He next addressed what is currently happening in the U.S., saying what are the signs that America will have its own social credit system? What else can you call all this regulation and repression when a Democratic senator asks a Republican to be put on a no-fly list because of the way he voted, or when an editor is forced to resign for allowing a Republican to express his opinion on his newspaper’s editorial page?
Green also cites signs of censorship of speech by big tech companies in the United States. He writes that tech giants have increased their censorship of those who hold dissenting views. In the run-up to the election, Twitter suppressed a New York Post story on Hunter Biden, the oil pipe (YouTube) removed two videos from a Senate hearing on a Communist virus treatment; and in another example, Google blocked an ad opposing the expansion of the Supreme Court. Then Amazon, Apple and Google exercised their monopolies to stop the Parler system, Twitter’s biggest competitor and the conservative’s alternative of choice.
Greene concluded that this was just the beginning of the left’s efforts to suppress dissent. A Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) lawyer was caught on camera calling for “re-Education camps” for the children of conservatives, while many political commentators have called on all cable services to cancel Fox News broadcasts.
“It’s Time to stand up for freedom. We don’t have time to waste.”
In his article, Greene said the left’s push to censor any viewpoint that is inconsistent with orthodox liberalism is dangerous and runs counter to the freedom of speech and thought that our nation holds dear.
He analyzes that the U.S. cultural movement to abolish censorship and the Communist Party have the same purpose. “In recent times, regulating the minds of citizens has been a policy pursued by authoritarian regimes that want subjects, not citizens. The American cultural abolitionist trend may not be as radical as the Chinese Communist Party’s social credit system, but it has a similar purpose, namely to ensure that only one ideology is identified with. Unlike the moderate liberals of earlier years, today’s awakened (woke, note: political term for conscious and active interest in significant facts or issues, especially on racial or social justice issues) radical left will not be satisfied until there is a one-party dictatorship in the United States and every voice of opposition is silenced.” He said.
Greene believes that the far left threatens Americans in a similar way to what the Chinese Communist Party has done to the Chinese. The CCP has linked economic and social status to the level of recognition of the CCP regime,” he said. And the cultural trend of abolition is doing the same thing in a different way, in America today.”
“Demanding complete agreement with a supposedly orthodox view is never freedom, much less true solidarity. Opposing views on intolerance only lead to resentment, not agreement.” Greene warns, “Threats can destroy a person’s career, and stopping their hiring or ostracizing them from the public social system may scare people into silence, but it will not convince them. It’s time to stand up for freedom, and we don’t have time to waste.”
Rep. Green is an emergency room physician and veteran of military service in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is currently a member of the House Homeland Security Committee and the Oversight Committee.
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