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First American Internet Addiction Treatment Center

Posted by timothy on from the cure-for-what-doesn't-quite-ail-ye dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Taking their lead from China, two Americans have opened the first US-based Internet Addiction treatment center in Fall City, Wash. — ironically close to Redmond (Microsoft's hometown). The center, called reStart: Internet Addiction Recovery Program, is a 45-day treatment center where, for a steep set of fees, people can be cured of their addiction to the Web. After paying the $200 application fee, addicts are charged $14,500 for the 45 days, an additional $800 for a screening, and more for extra services, like kayaking ($1,575)."

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  1. From TFA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...and this treatment is mandatory under ObamaCare for anyone the NSA observes reading Fox News or viewing certain types of photos on Flickr.

  2. Re:Internet Addition = Pornography Addition by davidsyes · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well, since it's put THAT way, all we need is someone to find a way to substitute most of the online available porn images with some District 9 references: Human-Prawn Inter-species Prostitution. Or, in the case of Wickers (the main character), make it anal, with references to Nigerian scams. (Butt, in the end would it be ISP, or Interspecies bestiality?) This would probably severely blunt the internet prawnorgraphic imagery distribution.

    To the well-endowned Prawns, once could say, "All your prawn things be LONG to USSS." Butt, once enough porn sites have been taken down, anti-porn geeks the world over could say to the porn sites "PRAWNED!"

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