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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?"
The fact that 'internet addiction' is ill defined and that this was a CHILD not an adult and the fact that it's government run should cause alarm bells to ring even if it is only one case.
If your alarm bells weren't ringing about China long before this incident then I'd say that you haven't been paying much attention to the last 40 years of Chinese history.
Your compliance amazes me.
You are throwing stones about compliance? You fucking hypocrite. You are sitting on /. typing your rant on a computer that was largely made with Chinese parts/labor, probably wearing shoes/clothing that were made in China and god knows what else. I'm sorry but you don't get to throw stones when you live in a glass house.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
OK. The Chinese government murderers children at random and they also happen to be communist. Come on, get serious. Cold War or not, the leaders of China are murderers.
Several activists have been recently disappeared or brought up on trumped up charges precisely because the Chinese government murderers children at random. Or rather, they construct schools in earthquake zones so poorly that it accomplishes the same thing. This, despite the promises of Wen Jiabao and others that the earthquakes from 2008 would be treated seriously.
No. Wen, Hu, and all others who belong to the CCP are murderers.
Hoist Number One and Number Six.
By your argument, the Chinese murdered children at random because they underengineered some school houses in an earthquake-prone region. What about New Orleans, where our government, with a gajillion times the resources of an impoverished Chinese provincial town, failed to construct adequate levees in a similarly disaster-prone region and exacerbated the loss of life with inadequate relief efforts? Should I even mention the TVA coal ash spill [dailykos.com]?
Thousands of schoolchildren died as a result of the coal ash spill while our government arrested people who came to it seeking a redress of their grievances? Why wasn't this covered on the news?
or is it as Chinese a phenomenon as "fat camps" might be an American one?
I'm not aware of any fat camps where the government tells you that you have to go and punishes you if you refuse......
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.