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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 Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Its a step further than the US has ever taken. In fact, getting raped, then beaten, then perhaps killed is more US prison style.

    Then there is prison slave labor in the US.

    Minors dying in youth detention facilities at the hand of their keepers.

    You might be surprised to learn that the US has one of the most inhumane prison systems in the entire world. Chinese prisons are not nearly as horrible.

    But then again, you don't have a fucking clue what you are talking about, so I don't blame you for being an idiot, spoon fed propaganda by your own media about how horrible the bad commies are.

    Oh, and whats this? The CHINESE media was reporting these beatings? How could that be? I thought they censored everything over there... Oh, wait, more bullshit.

    I mean, its only the chinese who shoot unarmed civilian student protesters, errr.. wait...

    When was it that the chinese forced their own youth to fight wars on foreign soil, for ideological reasons alone?

    When was it that the chinese nuked innocent civilians?

    China isn't the boogeyman you've been led to believe I'm afraid. Neither was the USSR, or Iraq, or Afghanistan, or the vietnamese, or....