The Algorithmic State

Social Credit Systems in the West: Digital ID, Risk Scoring, and the Infrastructure of Behavioural Control

China’s 2014 social-credit planning outline joined credit records, information infrastructure, incentives and penalties under an explicit state programme. Western democracies do not reproduce that programme as one national citizen score. Their documented pattern is fragmented: digital-identity systems, automated public decisions and risk tools operate under different laws, agencies and appeal routes.

Continuity of Empire: How Colonial Power Became Algorithmic Control

Researchers identify continuities in classification, extraction and governance. Those analyses are arguments with defined evidence—not proof of one timeless controller.

Digital Red Zones: Mapping Geographic Data Bias in Predictive Policing Software

Predictive policing systems were introduced as a technological breakthrough in law enforcement. Algorithms would analyse historical crime data and identify where crimes were most likely to occur.

Algorithms of Obedience: Censorship Pipelines Through Big Tech Partnerships

Big tech platforms no longer function as passive hosts for public speech. They are active gatekeepers operating layered moderation systems built from automated detection, human review, trusted-flagger networks, and algorithmic visibility controls.