China Bans Physical Punishment For Net Addicts 139
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gimmebeer writes to tell us that months after a teen was beaten to death in an Internet boot camp, China has banned the use of physical punishment to help teens kick their net addiction. "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 electroshock therapy as a treatment for Internet addiction, after media reports about a controversial psychiatrist who administered electric currents to nearly 3,000 teenagers. The latest guidelines suggest officials in Beijing do not think that those with unhealthy Internet habits should be forced offline permanently."
The beatings will continue until morale improves. (Score:1, Insightful)
Or at least in this case you have a choice.
You get a life or you lose your life.
Re:STFU if you're an American! (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Wow, that's impressive (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Wow, that's impressive (Score:5, Insightful)
a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war
lets see here, the kids A) Didn't choose to come on their free will B) Can't leave when they choose C) Are mentally stable and can make their own decisions and D) are being held against their will. I would call them prisoners.
Re:STFU if you're an American! (Score:5, Insightful)
Wrong source? (Score:5, Insightful)
Why don't they go all the way? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Wow, that's impressive (Score:5, Insightful)
Your reply is a commonly used and rather disingenuous ploy to misdirect attention from the topic being discussed. I could easily rephrase it as "but bad things happen in other parts of the world, so this doesn't matter!" Such silly attacks on the U.S. contribute nothing to attempts at addressing the matter at hand.
Try living in China for a year. Try living in the United States for a year. While the U.S. certainly has its own problems, I'd love to hear your report on how awful things are here compared to China.
Back to phychoterror then... (Score:4, Insightful)
...because in the eyes of the uneducated masses, that is still seen as "not real" and "just imaginary hurting". Despite modern neurology having proven, that the brain literally can't distinguish between those types of pains. (So a broken heart really actually hurts! And hurting you feelings creates real actual physical pain.)
Also, it is much harder to heal a fucked up mind, that a fucked up body. (From what is seen as "equally bad".)
But hey: It's invisible, so it can't be real. Any don't be a pussy anyway! Stop crying! He didn't beat you. It's just words. Right??
Welcome to the dark ages. You never left them.
Re:Wow, that's impressive (Score:3, Insightful)
Yes. In this case, one is government sanctioned, the other is illegal. One has no recourse, the other has (theoretically) the recourse of a criminal proceeding.
Re:Wow, that's impressive (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:suddenoutbreakofcommonsense (Score:1, Insightful)
And you think physical punishment is a good thing for "hardened" criminals? How is that common sense? You're just setting the bar slightly higher, you're just as bad as they are.
Re:Wow, that's impressive (Score:1, Insightful)
Or attempt the free practice of religion or speech.
Re:Wow, that's impressive (Score:5, Insightful)
A) Didn't choose to come on their free will B) Can't leave when they choose C) Are mentally stable and can make their own decisions and D) are being held against their will.
By your intrepretation a toddler put in a crib is also a prisoner.
Methinks you skipped some of the criteria there.
Re:Keepin' the Chinaman down!! (Score:4, Insightful)
Not even close, dood. I'm not going to kill a family of 4 if I crash my computer because I'm on the damn net too much.
Re:Wow, that's impressive (Score:5, Insightful)
I am quite familiar with the methods employed by the Chinese government to paint a pretty picture of the nation for tourists, and I'm not fooled. Let's have a look at the number of people emigrating to the U.S. from China, and contrast it with the number of people moving in the opposite direction.
Re:Ironic (Score:5, Insightful)