对于五毛党，我有着不同的见解。首先，我认为我们要允许五毛党的存在，每个人都有权利雇佣别人为自己说话，每个被雇佣者都有权利在任何地方说话。你如果能够把小明打一顿，然后用从小明身上搜刮来的钱雇个人再把小明骂一顿，这也算是你的本事。任何一个政府，都有为他宣传的机构,这是情有可原的。但是五毛党完全是政府的败笔，我以前以为五毛党的出现是为了引导舆论，现在想来我错了，因为你不会因为看见一堆人围着在吃屎而挤进去吃一口。五毛党本是中高层麻痹讨好最高层的产物，但随着五毛党的横行，很多光辉正确的人士只要一开口，明明是免费的，结果全都变成了五毛党，这严重打击了他们的积极性。本来进酒店开个房间一夜情，完事了出门全世界都说你是鸡，这种打击不言而喻。你一旦设立了五毛党，除了国内外舆论影响不好以外，所有你原本的拥护者都有了五毛党的嫌疑。我为什么很少赞美政府，一来是因为我怕别人说我是五毛党，二来若批评无自由，则赞美无意义，三来我已经纳了税，人民纳的税被用于五毛党活动经费，也等于是我间接赞美了政府。

最后我将去挑选一些言论，分辨一下哪个是外围写手写的，哪个是写作好手写的，哪个是爱国青年写的，哪个是无知少女写的，哪个是不高兴写的，哪个是没头脑写的。但是如果我冤枉了你，你是义务的，那么真的没有办法。谁让你的主子认为，和你一样的见解能值一毛钱呢。

I have a different reading of the Fifty Cent Party. First, I feel we should permit the Fifty Cent Party to exist; everyone has the right to hire someone else to speak for them and those hired have the right to speak anywhere they please. If you can beat Xiao Ming* once, and then with the money stolen off of him hire someone to curse him once, that counts as a talent. Every government has a mechanism for propagating their perspective, [so] that is excusable. But the Fifty Cent Party is the government’s mistake, before I thought they existed to guide public opinion, but it seems I was wrong, because you wouldn’t, upon seeing a crowd of people eating shit, squeeze your way in to have a bite yourself. The Fifty Cent Party is a result of the higher levels toadying to the highest level, but in the wake of the Fifty Cent Party’s rampage, many glorious and correct personages need only to open their mouths, which clearly costs nothing, and they become [referred to as] Fifty Cent Party members, which greatly hurts their enthusiasm. Originally, if you went into a hotel and booked a room for a one night stand, when you came out the next morning the whole world would call you a chicken [i.e. dick], this goes without saying. If you suddenly found the Fifty Cent Party, [... suddenly] all of your former supporters are suspicious of the Fifty Cent Party. Why do I rarely praise the government? First, I fear being called a Fifty Cent Party member; second, if you criticize the lack of freedom then praise is meaningless; third, I have already paid my taxes, and the people’s taxes pay the fees of the Fifty Cent Party, which is equivalent to me indirectly supporting the government.

Finally, in the future, I will choose some [comments on this post] and differentiate which were written by “other writers”, which were written by “talented writers”, which were written by patriotic youths, which were written by ignorant young girls, which were unhappily written, which were brainlessly written. But if I wrong you, you volunteered. Who made your master think that an opinion the same as yours was worth ten cents?

According to classified files about the makeup of the Fifty Cent Party, 50 writing experts, 100 talented writers, and 500 other writers constitute a “fifty cent agency”. This outpouring of Fifty Cent Party members, according to my judgment, is mostly focused on those “other writers”, but from time to time a talented writer will come out to test the waters, and as for the expert writers, they probably have duties within the system as up to now very few of them have appeared. Of course, the main reason is that with Spring Festival coming they’re busy with social visits and receiving gifts.

The recent flood of Fifty Cent Party members is one reason I opened this Sina microblog, first because the reactions of the Fifty Cent Party are relatively slow and I think that to many “talented writers” registering and logging into QQ is already the most they can do. Besides, on microblogs, you cannot speak anonymously and they are afraid to register. Moreover, if they perform well on microblogs, the authorities may notice and ask them to use their cell phones to guide public opinion moment by moment. To them, this is a disaster: at first it was 10 cents for one post, and that was good, but sending a text message to influence [public opinion] costs ten cents, plus there’s the cost of electricity for charging their phones, anyway they’re losing a little bit of money. Don’t ridicule them, they sell themselves for one mao, for a thousand kuai they would sell a kidney; to them, a little money is still money. They are truly living at the lowest level of society, but they are the species with ideology that most directly aligns with that of the ruling class