[HN Gopher] Major leak 'exposes' members and 'lifts the lid' on ... ___________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-12-13 23:01 UTC)