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China's Internet Addiction Clinic

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the time-for-an-intervention dept.

An anonymous reader writes "China has decided that if you are spending too much time online, you must be an addict. They've just opened a clinic to treat these internet addicts. Scarier is the head gear they have one patient hooked up to, and the fact that they think that this is some sort of epidemic and will shortly be expanding and adding 200 more beds to their clinics. In my opinion, the internet is way better and safer than alcohol and drugs any day. " We also covered this story last july.

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  1. Instant Cure by Aslan72 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Instant Cure...click here

  2. For gosh sake... by grumpyman · · Score: 0, Troll
    Yet another article sole purpose is China bashing, or put it up as a 'freak show'. Go to google and search for 'internet addiction'. What you'll find it is a not an uncommon phenomenon in the western world. Yeah the head gear looks scary, but that's just like brainwave scanner used in cognitive science here.

    I totally denounce the way summary is written and poster allows such posting. It sounds as if people are being force to the clinic (which I don't see in the article, from CNN for gosh sake), and make it sounds horrifying and crazy that they will add '200 beds'. This addiction is uncommon, but problems happens here as well.

    Guys, open your eyes instead of just read what you want to read, or post what you want to post. This /. culture of putting down ANYTHING 'China' is sickening me. We in the western world have access to such vast amount of information compare to developing country such as China, yet we would rather use tunnel vision: anything deviates from 'our way' is 'freak'. All prejudice starts from ignorance. Posters: please once and for all think about the way articles are being summarized; if you don't stop them you're pretty much helping to spread the hate.