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Q: Have you ever met someone who works for the 50 cent army?
Obviously to be able to work in this kind of job you need excellent English and good knowledge of history, politics and international relations. However, fifty cent posters are quick to resort to the ad hominum and are generally obnoxious, rude and narrow-minded bigots.
Do you think they simply deploy a persona when they jump online, work for a couple of hours and then head out to a library or museum to take in some culture?
Perhaps they are highly urbane and sophisticated liberals who're just faking it for a salary.
Surely trolling on about five or six websites a day, tricking someone into replying to your troll comment and then throwing back some vulgar abuse as you ensure you follow all of the 50 center steps will net you a pretty decent salary if you compare it to what so many Chinese people have to go through daily just to earn a little bit of money.
Are these people actually for real?
9 years 41 weeks ago in Business & Jobs - China
China has 2 million people working in "internet safety" the vast majority of them are working "in Chinese". The wumao program is in place to protect the CCP from the people. Pissing of foreigners is just a bonus
Scandinavian:
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/politics/2012/10/china%E2%80%99s-paid-trolls-meet-50-cent-party
Angry insecure youth with too much free time does the job for free. It's the same with Ayn Rand fanatics, die hard extremists of all kind, they will do militant work for free, because it's the meaning of their lives, with nothing else. Who is John Galt, by the way ?
laowaigentleman:
Are Ayn Rand fanatics militant? I read all of her works when I was younger and used to believe in it until I finally left the academic bubble. The one thing it has going for it is that it makes readers practically immune to group think and political correctness. In their defence, randians never sent anyone to a gulag. I don't think there's even one death caused by that ideology, twisted though it indeed is.
DrMonkey:
Woooops... Scratch the cheap shot at Ayn Rand, just think "fanatic". Any group holding dictatorship in the name of a rigid, religious-like fervor of an ideology is bound to do no good. I was born and bread in a country which is the anti-thesis of Ayn Rand, but honestly, I never read anything from her myself :) I heard about her because of the video game Bioshock :p
expatlife26:
haha I like to make fun of ayn rand fanatics too. I saw something funny it was the top 10 books of the 20th century both an editor's list and a users list. All the top ten user picks were hubbard and rand.
I expect a certain degree of populism on the users list and that's just fine. for my money too I'd rather read the shining than ulysses. But no way is that list organic, bunch of scientology and ayn rand jerks voted a bunch of times.
mArtiAn:
You guys just said a load of stuff and all I got was 'Bioshock'. Fu**ing love that game.
I think they're the same as those obnoxious salespeople who call you when you're cooking dinner and try to sell you a miracle cure for bad breath, or insurance or some cable TV deal or something.
They just repeat whatever nonsense the marketing dept tells them to say, it's doubtful they believe in the 'product' themselves and they certainly wouldn't buy it.
The wumao people on a lot of sites I've seen don't come across as being well educated or worldly, to me they just seem to be idiots repeating the same stock nonsense with no logic or thought behind what they say.
When you say 50 cent are you talking about wumaos or their western equivalent? I've heard the wumao argument on here plenty but the first time I heard the term '50 cent' directed at a person other than Curtis Jackson was when I used it to suggest a person who was accusing me of wumaoing was doing just that for western interests. Personally I wouldn't give the time of day to either if I met them but then I guess we're all pushing some product. The only 50 cent I'm interested in is the one who raps.
mArtiAn:
The guy was shot something like 9 times and lived, if I met him I'd call him pretty much anything he told me to.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/03/07/nsa-advice-columnist-serio...
'Zelda' is the name of '50 cent contributor' in USA
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Aren't these people able to sell their own soul for a piece of rice ball?
ScotsAlan:
Maybe they believe in what they are doing.
After all, there is no shortage of posters who believe West is best.
Think about it.
Westerners think west is best because that's what they were taught.
Easterners thing East is best because that's what they were taught.
Smart people maybe put their teaching to the side and spend time thinking for themselves.
Think. Don't just accept what you were told.
Greenwald 'told' me he met few of them:
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/
One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction. It’s time to tell a chunk of that story, complete with the relevant documents.
Over the last several weeks, I worked with NBC News to publish a series of articles about “dirty trick” tactics used by GCHQ’s previously secret unit, JTRIG (Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group). These were based on four classified GCHQ documents presented to the NSA and the other three partners in the English-speaking “Five Eyes” alliance. Today, we at the Intercept are publishing another new JTRIG document, in full, entitled “The Art of Deception: Training for Online Covert Operations.”
laowaigentleman:
I thought the standard method was to arrange for an IRS audit for three years' consecutively. That's what Ben Carson got.
As a Kiwi I haven't got a lot of time for Mr Greenwald. He shouldn't have taken Kim Dotcom's money. He practically gifted the New Zealand election to the right.
