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Chinese Internet Addiction Boot Camp Prison Break
UgLyPuNk writes "A group of inmates at the Huai'an Internet Addiction Treatment Centre decided they'd had enough of the 'monotonous work and intensive training.' Working together, they tied their duty supervisor to his bed and made a run for it. The 14 patients, aged from 15 to 22, hailed a taxi to take them to a nearby town — but were uncovered when the driver took them to the police station instead, suspicious of the identically dressed young men who were unable to pay the fare."
First I escaped Slashdot Addiction Camp, and now this! What a perfect day.
which is totally what she said
Instead of playing WoW, are they just living it now?
but shouldn't 14 people in a single cab still be considered somewhat suspicious on it's own?
Who's the tank and who's the buffer?
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Lat time I read about it was how some "patients" were beaten to death. One wonders what will happen to escapees ...
-- Technology for the sake of technology is as pathetic as eschewing technology because it's technology.
Expect the chinese government to spin this into a positive light for their work camp by "teaching teamwork and on-the-fly improvisational skills".
So, in China, you can pay a private firm to kidnap, lock up and abuse an adult, and if they escape, then the police will return them to the kidnappers?
So, do you just get to pick any adult, and is there a menu for the particular abuse that you want them to be subjected to? The mind boggles at the possibilities.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
I wanted to mod you up, but there's no option for "drug induced rambling."
What's the age of [whateveritscalled] in China? i.e. Why do over 16/18 (?) year olds need to "escape"? Pressure from the government, or parents, or honour, or something else?
I think the word your looking for is "oppression", and the answer is "any".
'We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.' RPF
Sorry, but 22 can be a child as can 28, well dependent or child take your choice.
Like any law we have here, it opens doors for new expansion to other laws basing some of their rules on previous. Recently health care laws were changed to designate that adults up to 28 are dependents to their parents if so chosen. How is this different than the story in China? Someone is paying to put these children/adults/dependents into these camps to get them back on the road to a productive life. Reading the article the government seems to support their usage but I cannot tell if they pay the costs.
Your really reading far too much into the story. China already locks up who it wants so your scenario exists in the standard method - government oppression. This story is about parents or guardians voluntarily placing dependents into the care of a business whose job is to correct behavior. We have those in the US too. No need to tin foil hat this.
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
and considering the reality of china, where the state treats everyone like a slave, i can understand why so many in china would be addicted to video games. i would be too if i lived in china
there exists in china the lives of the rich in the coastal cities, who are able to afford some degree of freedom
but for the rest of the country, the majority, you have some sort of nightmare where the worst excesses of communist authoritarianism combine with completely unbridled capitalist rapaciousness, to produce a distinctly modern chinese breed of hell on earth for the poor in china. the state has no problem abusing you and propagandizing you, and the corporations have no problem working you like a mule, and will bribe the corrupt state authorities to get away with it
it really is not surprising that some workers are committing suicide in flocks:
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-08/foxconn-says-personal-issues-not-wages-led-workers-to-suicide.html
modern china is a brutal corporatist authoritarian nightmare, the worst of communism and capitalism, mushed together as a hybrid schizophrenic hell
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it