The Paid Communist Chinese Comment Mafia
Posted on August 24, 2008
Filed Under Weblosophy
We all know about the Great Firewall of China, that repressive mysterious structure that reportedly is manned by 50k+ Chinese internet censers monitoring the daily freedom and activity of the Chinese people. But many bloggers and on a more wide swath YouTube viewers will be intrigued to learn about the Chinese Comment mafia.
Some of you may already know exactly what I am talking about.
It first became apparent to us this phenomenon when browsing though various YouTube videos. Anytime we came across a video that had to do with Tibet, Taiwan, Dalai Lama or was even remotely critical of China’s polices, then we would see a slow and steady stream of comment shills making their ways in.
At first they were blatantly aggressive, pointing their finger and telling all the western do-gooders how they are wrong, but then they slowly learned that westerners don’t react to overboard authority the same way as their Chinese flock so they ‘adjusted’ their message to appear to consider and debate both sides of the issue while still very pushing their agenda.
This Comment Mafia has all related videos on their watch list and makes sure to make comments every few hours to make sure that their views appear on the video page. Many seem to be registered out of Hong Kong.
The situation was brought to our attention again last week when a friend of mine did a post on how to install sopcast on Ubuntu to watch the Olympics
His is a rather techy blog for Linux heads, but in the course of his post he decided to through in a little political statement and posted an image of the Tibet flag along with the phrase “China Multiple Human Rights Violation” somewhere in his rant
Well it took them a few days, but low and behold he then had a commenter which came from a Hong Kong IP and had no referrer shown which we assume means that he found it with Google Alerts based on the trigger keyword “China Human Rights Violation.” Free Tibet! (lets see how long it takes them to find this post) Free Tibet
At first this commenter appeared to be well thought out, but in the end just started spilling the same packaged propaganda - starting off by agreeing, but then deflecting and disagreeing. Furthermore, by his brief mention of the actual content of the post (Sopcast) it was clear that he had no idea what this blog was really about, nor should be commenting on a heavy tech blog. Instead of feeding the troll, my friend just quietly removed the comment.
The point of all this being that there is a paid and concentrated Chinese comment mafia, most likely based out of or using a Hong Kong VPN that is policing the internet attempting to promote their view of thing.
If you want to do a little experiment, write a blog post and use some key terms that will trigger their Google alerts and see how fast they come running. Free Tibet. China Human rights, Independent Taiwan.
/start political rant
Fortune dictates we have one thing they don’t have. Freedom.
So instead of always focusing on Free Tibet or whatever, let us understand that it is the poor 1 billion Han Chinese already enslaved by the CCP that should be considered as well. Free China!
And for you CCP Comment Shill employed to attemempt to spread unhappiniess thoughout the world, consider that anywhere outside of China we are able to say what we want. The problem is not with the Chinese people or culture, which is ancient and wonderful, the problem is with the alien CCP which is actually does not stand for the Chinese people, but for its own power.
They are powerful and evil and you cannot defeat them with force, but with intelligence and intention they can be overcome. Free China!
/end political rant
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