信息技术与政法传统:重思社会信用体系建设

Information Technology and Political and Legal Traditions:Rethinking the Construction of the Social Credit System

当代中国兴起的社会信用体系建设,与历史中的政法传统具有连续性的制度逻辑。从信息的视角来看,有助于促成合作的信息构成了信用,在社会中一直发挥着重要作用,但受到技术条件的约束,传统社会中只能形成分散的信用机制,难以建立统一的社会信用体系。信息技术革命背景下,信息成本大幅度下降,分散的信息更容易被整合,同时也导致商业平台可能发展出信用治理的权力。中国社会主义法治建设中形成的政法传统,强调国家主导实施信息整合形成信用评价,这为当下的社会信用体系建设提供了基础。在政法传统逻辑上结合现代信息技术,发展国家主导的社会信用体系,能够更有效回应社会对于信用机制的需求,约束商业平台的权力,保证数字社会治理的社会主义方向。

The institutional logic of the social credit system that has emerged in contemporary China has a continuity with historical political and legal traditions.From an information perspective,information that helps to encourage cooperation constitutes credit,and has always played an important role in society.However,due to technical constraints,traditional societies can only from decentralized credit mechanisms,making it difficult to establish a unified social credit system.The significant drop in the cost of information in the context of the information technology revolution has made it easier to consolidate dispersed information and has also led to the possibility of commercial platforms developing the power of credit governance.The political and legal traditions formed in the construction of China’s socialist rule of law,with its emphasis on state-led implementation of information integration to form credit evaluations,provide the basis for the construction of the current social credit system.Combining modern information technology with the traditional logic of politics and law,the development of a state-led social credit system can respond more effectively to society’s need for credit mechanisms,constrain the power of commercial platforms and ensure a socialist orientation of digital social governance.