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Chinese Couple Sells Children To Support Online Game Addiction
hypnosec writes After several controversies arising about in-app purchases, a Chinese couple has done the unthinkable by selling their sons to buy in-app items. An unmarried couple, A Hui and A Mei, severely addicted to online games, were accused of selling their sons and were arrested. In an interview with Guangdong TV, they revealed that they chose to sell their sons to child traffickers. A Hui said A Mei is fond of playing online games and likes to buy game items. As he could not give up his in-app purchases, he was not able to support his first son and they sold him to Fujian-based child traffickers. When the wife bore another son, they felt they would not be able to support their second child either, and they again sold him to the traffickers.
spelling plz, we aren't all Onlione yet
Well, that's it, we're broke. It's science experiments for the lot of you!
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
From 2011
You might think this is getting to be epidemic in China or somebody over there takes advantage of gullible westerners ?
If these parents preferred in-game geegaws to their children then even going to Fujian child traffickers there's a fair chance that the children would end up in more caring homes than they started in.
What are Asian babies going for nonwadays. I cannot imagine very much. It does not cost that much to feed a person for a year of conception, and you might get two or three children out of one birth
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
It says in-app purchases, so I'm going with a yes on it being mobile games.
At lease in China they harvest their usable organs first...
Somehow I remembered the panels where the guy goes to the ATM and sells his family when I read this news:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/a...
you can get alot of money giving chinese babies to white americans. all i'm saying
Please give some context before your code snippet.
they were obviously not so much addicted as to not even sleep with each other any more ;)
nah, seriously, lock those people up good and take away all gadgets.
In all seriousness, is this what happens when you make drugs punishable by the death penalty?
No, no, no. Its about the Onlione Game. You play an Online Lion.
Why not something even more sinister, like "Toothless United States junkies sell children for meth"
Did you get a refund?
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Are we supposed to believe that people who sell their children can be generalized as especially evil if they are gamers, addicts, or Chinese? I mean what does that really have to do with it ? There are no good reasons for baby selling - its just bad for any reason. I bet these gamey baby sellers had a lot of other characteristics that were even more illuminating: like perhaps they were nuts or they had a spectrum disorder, or they were evil. Maybe they sucked at games and hate Chinese food. Somehow this headline smacks of "yellow" journalism. We always need to remind the west how shifty the majority population behaves. We believe in democracy as long as we out number them, but they don't get a vote if they are gonna sell babies for angry birds. Should we feel a bit superior because our gamers never have sex and therefore can't sell their children? Or perhaps that our baby sellers do it for better addictions, more cash, or porn? Somehow the story strikes me as a bad slant on China (sic) ...I mean everyone knows you keep the boys and sell the girls to desperate rich middle aged infertile Americans that will divorce before the child hits puberty.
If the kids are being "trafficked" to adoptive families it's not really much of a crime.
He made them an offer they couldn't refuse.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Yes, but you can't buy World of Warcraft experience points with a kidney.
I tried.
You are welcome on my lawn.
More of that high-quality Slashdot/Dice.com editing.
Is there any other kind?</snark>
Yeah, right.
Without being in favor of the death penalty it sounds like it may well have a silver lining in this case.
No, the murder of two people does not have a silver lining, especially mentally ill people.
Why didn't they sell these kids to adoption agencies? The kids would have been better off. Is there some law that prevents the sale of children to adoption agencies such that they turned to slavers instead?
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We've got to get this news to Central America. They are sending their kids up to the USA for free.
Have gnu, will travel.
You don't use kidneys for leveling - they're only useful for raid gear, duh.
Please stand clear of the doors, por favor mantenganse alejado de las puertas
So long as the child traffickers sell them for adoption into family homes... and not to those who will raise them for prostitution, or raise them for farm labor, or raise them to cripple them and set them to begging, or...
More of that high-quality Slashdot/Dice.com editing.
Is there any other kind?</snark>
Well then you do it! Seriously dude you show thes asshat editors that make a spelling mistake and show them how a really smart person does it. I am looking forward to seeing many articles from none other than Safety Cap.
In a breach of playground protocol, I triple dog dare ya.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
You can't sell your kids to an adoption agency.... you can give them up for adoption, but it's quite thoroughly against the law to have any monetary transaction accompanying it.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
If you read the article, it mentions things like him spending all night out at the internet cafe playing online games. You have to realize that desktop F2P games are still the dominating force over there, and the internet cafe keeps it going. Every time we hear about someone dying after playing some MMO for 36 hours straight or whatever, it happened in one of those cafe's.
There have been worse stories than this - one gaming addicted couple (maybe 2 years ago) sold their child to pay for their gaming, and got pregnant with the intent of selling their new one to pay for gaming as well.. they were also arrested. I can't remember what happened with the baby. There are also stories of parents selling their children for Apple products. People here are seriously sick in the head for money - it's a common problem with a lot of younger people especially... there is so much 'new wealth' around, typically not hard earned, and I suppose it influences a lot of people who, in a society where their self-worth is largely determined by how much money they've got in relation to those they went to high school/university with, I guess it's inevitable. If you do some research on child abductions and missing children - also - there are tens of thousands of new children going missing every year, at least. That's not including the ones who were intentionally sold. Farmers can sell their children into essentially slavery at just a couple years old, and do so for as little as 5000rmb (less than 1k USD). These children are often put out on the street while they're that young to panhandle, carrying cheap little flowers to harass people outside of clubs to buy the flowers for their partners, or at restaurants, or wherever. When they're older, the boys typically go into thieving, and the girls a far worse fate. It's truly a terrible circumstance, and if you live here, you can _ABSOLUTELY_ see it first hand.
Some WoW addict read this as: "Procreation: A source of revenue to fund your WoW leveling"
Now, now, be fair. The "editing" was bullshit before DICE took over.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
What gets me about this story isn't that they sold their children... you're going to have one or two parents out there in any society that are so screwed up in their heads that they'd contemplate such an option to fund whatever addiction they may have. The significance is that it's so easy to do so in China.
Apparently it's not "unthinkable".
you had me at #!
We will take these poor destitute kids and give them to our children's perversion services (cps) whose job is to take at risk kids who might be being molested by their evil nonconformist homeschooling parents and send them to a giant concentration camp where they are guaranteed to be molested. Social services depends on a steady supply of children to feed their bidget . No state senator or representative should have to spend a summer w/o the comfort of a nubile child. usian parents aren't having enough, so we need to import them from south / central america. President Obama has realized there is a crisis of not enough children so he is on the southern border to import more. It takes a village to molest a child, and the usian government is the village elders. The USA needs the worlds children.
Is a Bidget some kind of "usian" child eating monster? Like the German witch in the Black Forest that cooked up poor Hans with carrots and potatos?
I was-a eating a da spagetti with-a the onlion sauce so thought it was a recipe for-a how serve human.
spending 3 hours lying in bed reliving the games and mistakes i made that cost us wins kept me up. it was not something i needed a pill to fix, at least i didn't need a 'sleeping' pill also i was using wired lan. wifi was pretty lame back then, now that you get 96 megabytes per second with low packet loss is pretty good, and oh i lived in private homes not apartment complexes either.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html