“A reward of 10,000 yuan is offered for university graduates to find employment through connections! Very urgent!”, “A reward of 160,000 yuan is offered to seek execution of 2.05 million yuan from the Shanghai Court”... Recently, a new website of the relationship network quietly appeared. Relationships are commodities. Netizens can post tasks with bounty amounts, or accept tasks to obtain bounties. The website will take a cut of 20 from each bounty.
Looking for connections, I also logged into the website by category, and found that the "rewards for finding connections" in the "Rewards for connections" on the taskbar were also divided into "finding friends from the media, friends from corporate units, celebrities, introductions to advertisers, and looking for introductions to advertisers". Projects such as boyfriend/girlfriend, apprenticeship, etc. The most surprising thing is that one of them is to find friends in the government department
. "Looking for friends from the Beijing Education Commission", "Looking for friends from the Shanghai Municipal Government", "Wanting to make friends from the Nanjing Jiangning Propaganda Department"... There are currently 16 posts looking for such friends. Website commission 20. Entering the forum of this website, I found that there were many netizens irritating me, but not many wrote the amount of the reward or looked for help, and no one wrote a successful "transaction case".
A post "Looking for enterprises and institutions that use central air conditioners" offers a reward of 10,000 yuan, hoping to find large enterprises through the website to promote patented inventions. Others are more posts that seem to be purely "headhunting" posts looking for programmers, and most of the rewards are around a thousand yuan.
According to the regulations of Zhike.com, the party publishing the task needs to remit the amount before the task is released. The website will deduct 20 for website maintenance, etc., and the remaining 80 will be sent to the winning bidder in full.
Netizens: Only look for backdoors when necessary. “How can we provide a place for commercial bribery?” Some netizens have expressed doubts about the business launched by relationship websites. They will open backdoors and find relationships publicly. This clearly provides A place for commercial bribery. Many netizens questioned the practice of "publicly selling relationships." But some netizens expressed another opinion.
“Actually, in real life, we often need to find a backdoor.” Mr. Hu needs to go to Hong Kong for urgent matters, so it takes a long time to apply for a Hong Kong and Macau pass. Mr. Hu found help from his elementary school classmates and even posted posts on community forums, hoping to speed up the application process on the basis that the Exit-Entry Administration was "official". "If government departments were both disciplined and humane, there would be no room for such websites to survive," Mr. Hu said.
Zhike.com: We are just an intermediary. "Everyone has misunderstood our purpose." Lawyer Zhu Xiangwu, the legal consultant of Zhike.com, said that interpersonal relationships are a kind of resource. In order to make this resource give full play to its Utility, trading within a certain level does not violate the law. As an "intermediary", the website charges a certain fee, which is also reasonable and legal. As a user, making "offers" for tasks through the website is permitted as long as these offers are not prohibited by law. "When it comes to interpersonal relationships and connections, people associate them with backdoor and trust relationships. This is too one-sided and narrow-minded. And if we find illegal posts, we will not publish them or delete them." Provided on the dial-up website After calling the contact number, a staff member of the website said that since its establishment, the website has received gradually increasing attention from all walks of life, and the number of customers and successful transactions have also gradually increased.
Experts: This is a sidestep of the law. Although the relationship website has been questioned, experts say that the website does not involve any violations.
A lawyer from Dadi Law Firm said that current laws and regulations do not explicitly prohibit such behavior on websites. Only if the poster's purpose is to seek personal gain will it violate national law; if the final recipient is a staff member of a national government agency, the website will constitute the crime of introduction bribery. Now we can only observe it for a long time to see if it is used to facilitate bribery. If so, it can be banned. In other words, relationship websites are playing on the legal sidelines.