China Treats Internet Addiction Very Seriously 249
eldavojohn writes "China has taken new extremes in preventing internet addiction in youths and is even offering boot camps to parents who want their child weaned from the electric teat. The article notes that 'no country has gone quite as far as China in embracing the theory that heavy Internet use should be defined as a mental disorder and mounting a public crusade against Internet addiction.' The article mentions the story of Sun Jiting who 'spends his days locked behind metal bars in this military-run installation, put there by his parents. The 17-year-old high school student is not allowed to communicate with friends back home, and his only companions are psychologists, nurses and other patients. Each morning at 6:30, he is jolted awake by a soldier in fatigues shouting, "This is for your own good!"' Sun found himself spending 15 hours or straight on the internet. Thanks to his parents' intervention and the treatment, he now has life mapped out until he's 84. "
This just in... (Score:5, Funny)
-Rick
This obviously works quite well (Score:5, Funny)
China is right to take this seriously (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This just in... (Score:4, Funny)
Am not!
Just because I know this story has been duped twice [slashdot.org] before [slashdot.org] does not mean I'm an addict!
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What? Why are you looking at me like that?
Oblig. Futurama quote (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Tagged: excessive (Score:5, Funny)
And mapping out your life until you're 84? You've just had something else take over your life instead. Not much of an improvement in my opinion.
His life plan:
Age 17-23: School
Age 23-84: Work in factory making crap for WalMart.
Re:In America, we program Boot Camp. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It's not weened (Score:1, Funny)
I used to be like you. I would try to help out by correcting usage, grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
But now I'm cured. After 6 months in a penal facility run by the military and being awakened to a sergeant shouting that "it's for [my] own good," I now accept the fact that people are going to butcher usage, grammar, spelling, and punctuation. I am now at peace with that fact. Now, have the courage I did. Go to your local chapter of "Curing Grammar Obsessiveness" and get cured yourself. Hopefully no one will smuggle in a copy of Strunk & White or the Chicago Manual of Style to prolong your addiction and agony.
/s/ Your Brother in Proper Usage
Propaganda. Propaganda. Propaganda. (Score:3, Funny)
And what difference does it make? Reporting this stuff is just another way to say, "The hobbits at the other end of the shire are sort of queer. i.e., Let's support our government in spending billions to create a cold war when we could otherwise get on with our lives. All this peace business is bad for the bottom line."
Oooh. And the story comes direct from the Startribune news service. How shiek. They never report biased pre-fab crap because their bosses don't want to have the IRS come knocking or have their dog vanish or their job vaporize. Thank-you, the CIA. We love you ever so cuddly very much we do!
-FL
Re:Sounds about right (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Sounds about right (Score:3, Funny)