China’s prison network army reward standards exposed

The existence of a large number of Internet commentators, commonly known as “fifty-cent” Internet troops, in prisons across China is an open secret, and in recent years the Chinese media have published numerous “positive energy reports” revealing that many prisons across the country have trained “Internet (net) commentators for prison inmates. The Chinese media has published a lot of “positive energy reports” in recent years, revealing that many prisons across the country have trained “Internet (net) commentators for inmates. Recently, the Internet has published the criteria for awarding points to inmates in China’s prisons’ online army, showing that this group of “prison fifty cents” has created a lot of online garbage. In overseas social media, netizens have called on young and old “fans” who have been deceived by the online army to reflect on their own intelligence.

On Feb. 17, Chinese online media “Netease News” published a report about “every prisoner is trying hard to save points,” and a suspected informed netizen left a comment at the bottom, revealing the criteria for awarding points to inmates in some Chinese prisons: “3 points for posting (posting), 1 point for following (writing one’s opinion after a published post), and 100,000 points to reduce (sentence) for six months. “

The reward standard is similar to the general net army “posting 50 cents” material rewards, so it has aroused concern. In the Twitter, some netizens posted, “young and old pink is not to reflect on their own intelligence, you are a group of ‘freedom’ prisoners to deceive.

Some netizens calculated that if you want to reduce your sentence for six months, you need to “follow” 100,000, or “post” more than 30,000 articles, you can not help but sigh, eager to reduce the sentence of prisoners will be for China to create how much trash online articles.

“The term “pinko” was initially used to refer to nationalist netizens in China, but since 2010 there has been an influx of nationalist Chinese youths online, with some media describing pinkos as the “modern Red Guards. Pinkies attack people with opposing views online by scaling walls, often over-examining the behavior of others and over-interpreting the term “insulting China”.