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China Treats Internet Addiction Very Seriously

Posted by Zonk on from the glad-i-don't-live-in-china dept.

eldavojohn writes "China has taken new extremes in preventing internet addiction in youths and is even offering boot camps to parents who want their child weaned from the electric teat. The article notes that 'no country has gone quite as far as China in embracing the theory that heavy Internet use should be defined as a mental disorder and mounting a public crusade against Internet addiction.' The article mentions the story of Sun Jiting who 'spends his days locked behind metal bars in this military-run installation, put there by his parents. The 17-year-old high school student is not allowed to communicate with friends back home, and his only companions are psychologists, nurses and other patients. Each morning at 6:30, he is jolted awake by a soldier in fatigues shouting, "This is for your own good!"' Sun found himself spending 15 hours or straight on the internet. Thanks to his parents' intervention and the treatment, he now has life mapped out until he's 84. "

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  1. Way off topic don't bother wasting yr mod points by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Anybody else see the "dating" ad that appeared on /. today? I don't know who anybody is trying to kid...

  2. Internet: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Internet: Serious Business.

  3. It's not weened by drinkypoo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's weaned. Don't use words you don't understand. Or that the slashdot "editors" don't understand.

    It's also "parents'" and not "parent's". The former is plural possessive. The latter is singular possessive.

    Since the slashdot editors will not edit, I guess someone else is going to have to do it. Pity we can't edit the actual story submission, and have to content ourselves with providing corrections here.

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    1. Re:It's not weened by TrappedByMyself · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      It's OpenSource journalism. Why check for accuracy when someone else will do it for me?

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    2. Re:It's not weened by LanMan04 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      It's weaned. Don't use words you don't understand. Or that the slashdot "editors" don't understand. To be fair, I think they understood the meaning of the word. It was simply misspelled.
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    3. Re:It's not weened by Hoi+Polloi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I'd mod you up if I could.

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    4. Re:It's not weened by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Why be anal? (It is a blog)

      PS. I'd like to coin the term "pedantic remandoism" for this type of activity (since it happens at least once in every blog thread).

      We all know what "pedantic" means. And "Remando" is latin for, "to send back word". (Itself a case of double entendre since it can be taken as a pun more or less, or, as in this case, a reply.) - SBM

    5. Re:It's not weened by Hoi+Polloi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Blame the popularity of the band "Ween"

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    6. Re:It's not weened by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I see the problem to but it's two late to loose your temper over some thing tervial like that.

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    7. Re:It's not weened by black+inc. · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      If you are going to complain about someone's grammar, make sure to check your own. "have to content ourselves with providing corrections here" is not a complete sentence; therefore, you should not have placed a comma before "and".

    8. Re:It's not weened by Aaron32 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Your an idiot! (yes, it was on purpose)

  4. I think the word you mean is weanie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    As in "That grammer nazi sure is a weanie".

  5. Re:Way off topic don't bother wasting yr mod point by metlin · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Geeks need love too, dammit!

  6. In America, we program Boot Camp. by Peter+Trepan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In Socialist China, boot camp programs you!

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  7. Re:Way off topic don't bother wasting yr mod point by Zonk+(troll) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That's what Amanda Tapping blow up dolls are for...

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  8. Follow up... by RingDev · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    AKAImBatman's parents, in a fit of desperation, have turned to the state government for assistance in raising their kin. Hilarity expected soon. Stay tuned for details.

    -Rick

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  9. Re:This just in... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Youth engaging in self destructive addictive behavior. News at 11:00.

    No, masturbation does not make you blind.