Teen dies in China net addiction camp
p2pnet news view Games | P2P:- China has an estimated 107 million juvenile surfers, 13 million of them labelled addicts, says the Shanghai Daily.
And that can have dire consequences.
An illegal net “rehabilitation camp” was shut down and 13 workers, including its president, were arrested after a 15-year-old Deng Senshan (right) died, said China Daily recently.
“In photographs shown to China Daily, Deng’s body is pictured with bruises and his face is covered in blood,” says the story, continuing:
“Those photos are in shocking contrast to ones taken just 48 hours before, showing Deng smiling with his father and sister on the beach.”
Deng’s uncle, Li Jian, is quoted as saying his nephew’s addiction wasn’t severe and the teenager, “only surfed the Internet on weekends”.
A similar clinic, “gave electric shocks to teenagers whose parents had admitted them against their will,” says the Shanghai Daily, stating:
“People who spend more than 40 hours online each week will be considered Internet addicts under China’s new treatment standards for an affliction that’s estimated to be affecting the lives of millions of the country’s teenagers.
“The draft definition of online addiction was based on research into the standards used by foreign countries and has also been influenced by China’s experience with the problem, Gao Xueping, a member of the expert panel working on the new treatment standard, told China’s media.”
The Ministry of Health panel is , “working on guidelines designed to treat people who are addicted to online games, the biggest group of Internet addicts,” the story has Gao saying, adding:
“The standards are expected to be released by the end of this year.”
Shanghai Daily – 40 hours a week eyed as Internet addict threshold, August 26, 2009
China Daily – Camp closed, 13 detained over death of teenage Net addict, August 10, 2009
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August 28th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
It’s funny how one teenager dies in a camp and the whole world takes notice, but yet the exact same thing is done to dozens of Falun Gong believers every day, with the Chinese government’s blessing, and most of the world just looks the other way.