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China Bans Physical Punishment For Net Addicts

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the no-more-actually-kicking-the-habit dept.

gimmebeer writes to tell us that months after a teen was beaten to death in an Internet boot camp, China has banned the use of physical punishment to help teens kick their net addiction. "The death of 15-year-old Deng Senshan, just hours after he checked into an Internet bootcamp in the southwestern Guangxi region in early August, caused a media storm in China. Days later, another teenager, Pu Liang, was taken to hospital with water in the lungs and kidney failure after a similar attack in Sichuan Province. The government in July had already banned electroshock therapy as a treatment for Internet addiction, after media reports about a controversial psychiatrist who administered electric currents to nearly 3,000 teenagers. The latest guidelines suggest officials in Beijing do not think that those with unhealthy Internet habits should be forced offline permanently."

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  1. Re:Wow, that's impressive by palegray.net · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The parent should not be modded "flamebait." If this is how people who have been determined to suffer from an addiction to the Internet are treated, imagine what must be happening to those diagnosed with more "serious" addictions to other vices. Add in gross human rights violations against those accused of actual crimes, and the situation begins to look very grim.

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  2. Re:Wow, that's impressive by Darkness404 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    A prisoner is defined as:

    a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war

    lets see here, the kids A) Didn't choose to come on their free will B) Can't leave when they choose C) Are mentally stable and can make their own decisions and D) are being held against their will. I would call them prisoners.

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  3. Wrong source? by BoppreH · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Electroshock therapy for Internet addiction? Are you sure this isn't from The Onion?

  4. Re:Wow, that's impressive by schon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A) Didn't choose to come on their free will B) Can't leave when they choose C) Are mentally stable and can make their own decisions and D) are being held against their will.

    By your intrepretation a toddler put in a crib is also a prisoner.

    Methinks you skipped some of the criteria there.