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China cracks down on Internet addiction centers

By: hasnain send a private message
Beijing : China | 16 days ago  
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Beijing:China has one of the largest and most rapidly growing online populations in the world.Its horrible in china internet history that is going to wrong side by entering unhealthy internet habits among the young and this all is taking youth to the way of evil and China’s Ministry of Health has banned the use of physical punishment to wean teens off the net, months after a boy was beaten to death at an Internet boot camp.Chinese parents are very worried due to this atmosphere and they have blamed on 200 organisations who are offering treatment for internet 'disorders' as the government increasingly warns of unhealthy internet habits among the young.Many of the camps are imbued with a military atmosphere.Patients are forced to replace hours in front of the computer with arduous physical drills or even more extreme ‘treatments.’

‘The death of 15-year-old Deng Senshan, just hours after he checked into an Internet bootcamp in the southwestern Guangxi region in early August, caused a media storm in China.

Days later another teenager, Pu Liang, was taken to hospital with water in the lungs and kidney failure after a similar attack in Sichuan Province.The government in July had already banned electro-shock therapy as a treatment for Internet addiction, after media reports about a controversial psychiatrist who administered electric currents to nearly 3,000 teenagers.‘The goal of intervention is ... to urge the target people to use the Internet in a healthy way.The basic purpose is to stop from this dangerous thing ,no meaning to stop from internet positive activities.

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Posted By graffiti1982 graffiti1982 | 16 days ago
The crackdown is an exaggeration. There are alternative ways to instill discipline among China's youth about being online.
Reply By hasnain hasnain | 16 days ago
yeah u are saying right
Posted By firehead33 firehead33 | 14 days ago
very exaggerated and they SHOULD STOP!
Posted By wasem wasem | 8 days ago
thx for sharing this with us
Posted By wasem wasem | 8 days ago
keep up the good work
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