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China's Ministry of Health has decided to ban torture (sometimes leading to death) as a "treatment" for "internet addiction."
The prevailing culture in China has seeming embraced the idea that The Internet is very bad for young folks, so parent often send their children off for treatment at any of several available organizations. These are boot camp -esque deprogramming facilities, and physical violence or torture are used liberally. Sometimes the children die.
Now, the Chinese Government is changing its policy.
"When intervening to prevent improper use of the Internet, we should ... strictly prohibit restriction of personal freedom and physical punishments," the ministry said in a draft guideline for Internet use by minors, posted on its website.It appeared to have dropped the term "Internet addiction", widely used in earlier ministry documents, perhaps in a bid to calm worried parents who fuelled a mushrooming business of harsh camps to prevent teens from spending hours online.
One 15-year-old boy died within hours after of joining Internet bootcamp another hospitalized with severe organ failure in Sichuan Province. These incidents caused a reverse reaction to the previously prevailing fears of "Internet addiction."
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.
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It is funny that we compare our students' test scores to the chinese students' scores and try to make ours like theirs. They think the internet is a bad thing and we let our children on it all the time. Does anyone else see a problem here? Now, I definitely do not agree whatsoever with sending those children to any type of camp or putting them through any type of punishment for being on the internet, but I do think there needs to be monitoring of what they are doing on there. I just think it is so weird that we are always comparing their children to ours and look at what they are doing to theirs!
Posted by: Tami | November 7, 2009 6:02 PM