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Teen Killed At Chinese Internet Addiction Camp
eldavojohn writes "Sixteen-year-old Deng Senshan was tragically beaten to death by three of his instructors in an internet addiction camp in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China. Reportedly it was for not being able to run fast enough. An article in the Wall Street Journal says that, 'China's netizens have played a key role in drawing nationwide attention to recent cases of deaths in prisons and detention centers, so it should be no surprise that they are up in arms over the fate of one of their own. Many questioned the fairly new diagnosis of "Internet addiction" as a mental disorder.' You may recall electroshock treatment being banned from use on internet addicts in China. According to Xinhua, more than 100 juveniles remain in 'treatment' at the camp, which has stayed open. Perhaps for Senshan it would have been better to let him endure his cruel affliction instead of having his parents pay over $1,000 to have him beaten to death?"
So you're saying we should all just sit down and shut up? That the only people who have any right to be pissed off about what happened fab'ed their own chips, washed their own PCB, and are currently packing up to fight the PRC with their own bare hands? Up yours, you cock. Go shove your feigned righteous indignation.
I don't think they're even a gulag for political prisoners -- if they were, the beatings and such would at least make a modicum of sense (a perverted one, but sense nonetheless)...
Ah, but there are lots of parts of the world where nerdy kids are routinely beaten up by the local gangs of jocks. It's socially acceptable in much of the US and the UK, and any number of other countries.
Of course, they usually don't kill their victims. That's usually reserved for kids that are suspected of being "gay".
Dunno how that dynamic works out in China, though.
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
I thought the point of Darwin's law was to remove your genes from the pool before you reproduced? I guess the next best thing would be to have a post birth abortion... And if they allow those kinds of abortions, I wonder what happens in Soviet Russia?