[HN Gopher] Major leak 'exposes' members and 'lifts the lid' on ...
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       Major leak 'exposes' members and 'lifts the lid' on the Chinese
       Communist Party
        
       Author : draugadrotten
       Score  : 63 points
       Date   : 2020-12-13 21:43 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (gitlab.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (gitlab.com)
        
       | forkLding wrote:
       | Usually communist party members in your company in China isn't a
       | big secret, it's pretty much public info because the top 10%
       | elite usually get invited and are allowed into the party. Also
       | the desks of communist party members in the company will usually
       | have communist party emblems and chinese flags indicating their
       | status as a Communist Party member, it's not taboo to do so. Most
       | top companies will gather top job candidates which will include
       | communist party members who work as lawyers, developers, etc (aka
       | normal jobs) and they will list their CCP membership on their
       | resumes. So this is more doxxing I would say as the vast majority
       | of communist party members working at a company are regular
       | people.
       | 
       | Source on Communist Party entrance process:
       | https://daily.jstor.org/communist-party-of-china/
        
         | verroq wrote:
         | Yes this is true. Being a party member is just passing a test
         | and paying the membership fee.
        
           | ardy42 wrote:
           | > Yes this is true. Being a party member is just passing a
           | test and paying the membership fee.
           | 
           | Not really. I have a friend who nearly joined in college.
           | They had several rounds of applications: the first few went
           | to kids with connections (or whose connections put them in a
           | good position, e.g. appointed to be some kind of student
           | government thing). Once those groups were exhausted, other
           | kids got a change. My friend was a very good student, but got
           | a no-so-subtle message from the school official running the
           | process that they wouldn't be considered without a bribe.
        
       | draugadrotten wrote:
       | News report: https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6215946537001
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | fatsdomino001 wrote:
       | Someone should throw the sqlite database up with Datasette,
       | probably some very interesting faceted search that could be had
       | here
        
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