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Re:US government accuses TikTok of being a mouthpiece for th... by sudoaza on Saturday September 26, 2020 @07:37AM (#24598004)
isn't like 10% of chinese population party members? How many employees has Bytedance in total?
Re:US government accuses TikTok of being a mouthpiece for th... by whoevercares on Saturday September 26, 2020 @08:18AM (#24598244)
That’s true and if you are willing to extrapolate by connecting family relationship, you are basically implying most of the Chinese people can’t be trusted.

And THAT is a dangerous claim that mixes Chinese people and the ruling government/party.

Re:US government accuses TikTok of being a mouthpiece for th... by ketzu on Saturday September 26, 2020 @08:28AM (#24598300)
According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party) the CPC has 91,914,000 members in 2020. Which is around 6.5% of the population of the PRC or around 1.2% of the world population (assuming around 7.8 bil people).

Byte Dance has around 30k employees in total (world wide) according to https://craft.co/bytedance so by random sampling we would expect 350 employees to be CPC members.

So if they have 130, that would be less than you would expect from complete random sampling all over the world.

Of course that's a naive approach in many ways.

Re:US government accuses TikTok of being a mouthpiece for th... by lightroast123 on Sunday September 27, 2020 @10:22PM (#24612325)
bytedance has 70k employees right now