China's Central Discipline Inspection Commission (CDIC) announced on its website on November 21, 2017, that Lu Wei, the former head of the Chinese Internet regulator, has been placed under corruption investigation. Lu Wei was the Director of the Administration of Cyberspace between April 2013 and June 2016. With his iron fist control over the Internet, he established his image as a hardline leader. In 2014, under Lu Wei’s leadership, the Cyberspace Administration started organizing the annual Wuzhen World Internet Forum to promote the idea of Internet sovereignty to the world. Following the investigation announcement, the Cyberspace Administration held an internal meeting denouncing the former leader. According to the state-owned Global Times, the meeting concluded that: Lu Wei […] has severely deviated from the Party Principle, violated the Party’s Central authority’s disciplinary requirement on party members, officials and leaders, severely polluted the political ecology of the CAC, severely damaged the image of the CAC and its team, and severely jeopardised the party's efforts for the healthy development of the internet and he is a typical two-faced man.
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