China's "professional trolls"...coming to an online forum near you

[CougarKing]

Maybe all those half-a**ed anti-Western comments on some yahoo articles' comments sections were from some of these trolls...

China''s Professional Trolls, the 50 Cent Brigade!

China Uncensored

ntd.tv link

China''s 50 Cent Brigade, sometimes called the 50 Cent Party, are essential professional trolls. It''s their job to trawl through websites, both inside and outside of China, and monitor what the public is saying about the regime and draw the conversation away from anything critical of China by instead criticizing the United States, Western involvement in international affairs, or by pointing out the flaws of democracy.

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Video report at the above link.

 

[cupper]

Hmmm. That might explain some of the goings on around here. ;D

 

[Lightguns]

Surely they cannot be any worst than the native trolls that inhabit Sun news boards.

 

[Shamrock]

Baseball really is the best sport.

 

[CougarKing]

Baseball really is the best sport.

??? umm...okay.

Unless I missed something, I don't see what this has to do with the topic.

 

[krimynal]

keeping the conversation away by "trolling"


which he did right haha !

 

[Journeyman]

....with the topic moving further from China when someone posts the obvious reponse:  no, rugby really is the best sport, with all of those round-ball sports -- baseball, golf, tennis, ping-pong, what have you -- being much lower tier.




OK, except maybe women's beach volleyball; that's an OK round-ball sport

 

[Shamrock]

....with the topic moving further from China when someone posts the obvious reponse:  no, rugby really is the best sport, with all of those round-ball sports -- baseball, golf, tennis, ping-pong, what have you -- being much lower tier.

I think you might be right.

Rugby employs perhaps the largest of teams, and all its players work very hard together to achieve success for the team.  It epitomizes the expression the team is greater than the sum of its parts.  Without the teamwork, rugby is little more than a melee - a group of individuals scrambling for insignificant personal gain quite often at the expense of others.

If only a political ideology could come about akin to rugby, whereby through the revolutionary application of violence, a government could be placed into power.  A government that espouses the team spirit of its people, and rewards the equal contributions of all its people as equals.  That sounds like a really good idea.

 

[ArmyRick]

Yes....rugby is good. Do not question or challenge rugby, it is right and that is all one needs to know.

 

[Bruce Monkhouse]

Yes....rugby is good. Do not question or challenge rugby, it is right and that is all one needs to know.

It is for those who aren't sexy, coordinated, or awesome enough to play beach volleyball that is.

 

[GAP]

It is for those females who aren't sexy, coordinated, or awesome enough to play beach volleyball that is.

TFTFY  ;D

 

[Journeyman]

It is for those females who aren't sexy, coordinated, or awesome enough to play beach volleyball that is.

  Sometimes a black eye can be hot    :nod:

 

[CougarKing]

;D Wifebeaters, rugby, volleyball and baseball aside, here's a picture of one of the PLA's cyber warfare units, some of whom are tasked with being "professional trolls" as described in the opening article.

 

[Lightguns]

So thats what the garrison jacket looks like digi!  Seriously, I think it is a flaw to suppose they can change opinion by arguing in chat rooms.  Trolls keyboarding trolls will never form the basis of public opinion.  Might be fun to watch.