A concern about this social credit system is how it will be used by individuals during disputes. Will there be a process in place to weed out the actual infractions from the spurious infractions?
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^ I think that was kind of the point. That if left to social whims, everything would eventually spiral out of control. That's the kind of danger they wanted to show in this episode, in how we rely so much on social media.
I like Orville's take on that idea that was also done by Community and Black Mirror, but one thing I feel none of those episodes touched on is how systems like this are manipulated by the wealthy and powerful. Community kind of did it with the fives having the power to decide who becomes fives, but mostly they focused on the system forcing individual people to market themselves. They didn't focus on the even more dangerous stuff going on right now on Facebook with people building psychological profiles of people they use to manipulate them into hating each other to get their votes.
And none of that is as scary as a government like China using it to punish people who express sentiments they disagree with. Only thing worse than social media power dictated by the majority is social media power dictated by the one.
And none of that is as scary as a government like China using it to punish people who express sentiments they disagree with. Only thing worse than social media power dictated by the majority is social media power dictated by the one.
The Orville has won a Saturn Award for best Science Fiction Television Series.
(in other news Star Trek: Discovery won in the Best New Media TV Series category)
(in other news Star Trek: Discovery won in the Best New Media TV Series category)
I'm having trouble with the link for some reason.
Works for me.
I'm having trouble with both awards.
Hey, if Variety tells me I'm lost and am there by mistake, I don't need to click into them. 
Congratulations to the cast and crew of both shows.
I kinda love that The Orvile won Best Science Fiction show over Discovery LOL
Me, too.
Recognition well deserved by both shows.
Congratulations to everyone involved with Orville. The award is well deserved.
Congrats to the manatees on the writing staff, and the visionaries who put them in a tank filled with balls with names of Star Trek episodes written on them.
I like The Orville, but I kinda feel like The Expanse should have gotten the Saturn Award for best science fiction series. They both deserved to be nominated, though.
I wonder if Expanse’s initial cancellation influenced the award decision which was finalized before it was picked up again by Amazon maybe?