Joe PolishFounder of Genius Network and President of Piranha Marketing

The Implications of CBDCs and More Government Control

15 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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This clip presents a hypothetical scenario describing how government-controlled social credit systems and ubiquitous facial recognition could enforce compliance (mask/social-distance rules) by deducting points and restricting purchases and travel, effectively imposing house arrest on low-scoring individuals. The speaker warns that a government with such capabilities could silence critics and commit broader abuses.

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If the government declared a mask day, and you're walking around with your mask below your nostrils, and you're seen on facial recognition system, which knows everybody, you're going to now lose social credit points. Or if you're too close to your girlfriend on a, you know, social distance day, you're not even told about it, you're going to lose social credit. And if you drop below a certain point, at some point, you're your credit, your facial credit card stops working, except in grocery stores that are within a certain radius of your home. So you can't travel, you can't buy gas for your car, you can't buy an airplane ticket, you can't go to a hotel. You're essentially under house arrest. If the government has the capacity to do that to people. I mean, a government that can silence its critics has a license for any kind of atrocity.