And we're all sh*t-hot to call al Qaeda evil...
China's been consistently butchering the concept of human rights for decades,
and yet Mister Bush's Guv'mint routinely turns both cheeks to them, and has us
in virtual economic bondage to them.
Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
China clinic gives 'web addicts' shock treatment
12/21/2007 @ 11:17 am
Filed by David Edwards and Muriel Kane
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Shock_therapy_treats_internet_addiction_in_1221.html
Increasing affluence in China, combined with intense pressure on young
people to succeed, has led to the appearance of large numbers of
Internet dropouts.
Most of those affected are adolescent males who, according to IBN Live,
lack self-confidence and have trouble coping with the pressure from
their parents to do well at school, which is why computer games, where
success comes with such little effort, are so addictive.
There are many clinics offering cures, but the Internet Addiction
Treatment Center in Daxing County, which combines military-style
discipline with therapy and even low-voltage electric shocks, claims a
particularly high success rate of 70%.
However, even the Daxing center has difficulty with the other 30% of
referrals, who are often severely depressed and resistant to counseling.
Their souls are gone to the online world, said one psychologist.
Chinese officials estimate that 13% of Internet users under the age of
18 are addicts. There is little consensus in the West on whether
Internet addition is real or how it should be defined, but the Chinese
have no hesitation in comparing it with drugs and gambling and blame it
for murders, suicides, and much juvenile crime. When one 30 year old man
died of exhaustion earlier this year after playing online games for
three straight days, Shanghai police began enforcing an age limit of 16
at all Internet cafes.
Korea, often described as the most wired country on earth, has also
embraced the Chinese definition of Internet addiction and estimates that
up to 30% of its own young people are at risk. Korea recently opened its
first boot camp on the Chinese model, the Jump Up Internet Rescue School.
This video is from IBNLive.com, broadcast on December 21, 2007. See
video at:
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Shock_therapy_treats_internet_addiction_in_1221.html
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