China’s "shameless" former internet czar Lu Wei was expelled from the Communist Party and investigated for corruption — Quartz

China’s "shameless" former internet czar Lu Wei was expelled from the Communist Party and investigated for corruption — Quartz: "An usually high-profile party official, Lu was the face of China’s vicious crackdown on the internet and free speech in the last few years. The CCDI statement reads as a rebuke of his flamboyance and swagger in the way he dealt with foreign tech giants including Apple and Facebook, and how he promoted China’s controlled vision for the global internet.

In 2014 when asked by a reporter why foreign sites like Facebook and Twitter are blocked in China, Lu infamously said: “We have never shut down any foreign sites. Your website is on your home soil. How can I go over to your home and shut it down?” Later that year, Lu toured Facebook’s offices in California, during which CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed him a copy of Xi’s book on communism, and said he had bought it for his employees.

 Here’s a translation of all the allegations against Lu included in the statement" 'via Blog this'