Tag: ‘demeaning’

08 APR

China has started ranking citizens with a creepy ‘social credit’ system — here’s what you can do wrong, and the embarrassing, demeaning ways they can punish you

REUTERS/Stringer The Chinese state is setting up a vast ranking system system that will monitor the behaviour of its enormous population, and rank them all based on their “social credit.” The “social credit system,” first announced in 2014, aims to reinforce the idea that “keeping trust is glorious and breaking trust is disgraceful,” according to a […]

05 MAR

Holocaust survivor subjected to ‘demeaning’ body search by TSA agents

A Holocaust survivor claims she was subjected to a “very demeaning body search” by the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The ordeal took place after she gave a lecture on her experiences in Auschwitz. Eva Mozes Kor was forced to undergo an extremely intrusive body search before she was allowed to board her flight home […]