i was a troll for the communists

Various outlets have run stories based on the recent Southern Weekend expose of China’s commentator cops – cadres working for the The PRC’s internet police, employed to insert pro-government news and views in chatrooms, BBS boards and the like.

Here’s ESWN’s translation of the whole original article.

"Develop actively, increase control, accentuate the good and avoid the bad, use it to our advantage" is the statement about how to practice Internet commentary. These words form the key summary statement. On the inauguration meeting of the Internet commentator team, Suqian City Committee Propaganda Department Deputy Director Zhang Fenglin said, "In the information age and the Internet age, the most important and critical mission in front of us is to is how to seize the initiative on Internet opinion and how to seize the high point of Internet opinion."

Ma Zhichun and Lu Ruchao are both in agreement on this: "The key is to seize the initiative."

What was that about “no head end” again? The fact that the CCP has always been so open – shameless is better – about making propaganda actually seems to make it better adapted to using the internet for its own purposes than governments which have to pay lip service to open debate. They don’t have to pussyfoot about. They can just go right ahead and do it. The way in which opinion and information swarms on the internet is also vaguely reminiscent of crowds of eager young red guards, waving little rted books and heading out to propagandize amongst the masses. Except this time they can keep their pajamas on.

On the other hand, this whole thing sounds very N*w L****r.

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[dsquared]

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[zxzxzx.zxzx]

Long live the EU. Up with socialism. It is the Chinese who benefit from destroying the EU not Europe. How are we supposed to know that it is not the Euroskeptics being funded by the chinese. .