China Disallows Corporal Punishment in its Web "Rehabilitation" Centers - The UpStream

China Disallows Corporal Punishment in its Web "Rehabilitation" Centers

posted Sunday Nov 8, 2009 by Nicholas DiMeo

China Disallows Corporal Punishment in its Web "Rehabilitation" Centers

We brought you this story a while back, an Internet rehab clinic in China was using unconventional methods, to say the least, and one of the patients wound up dead. Well, after this tragic incident, China has decided to ban corporal punishment in Internet rehab. They are no longer permitted to beat and confine patients, which are mere children.

This past week, the Chinese government posted the new regulations, stating,

The concept of 'Internet addiction' has not been fully defined. Parents and teachers must analyse the causes and not arbitrarily condemn, hit or scold youths.

Although it only took the death of one 15-yr-old to cause a national riot against the government for allowing these practices, nearly 10 million "web addicts" were enrolled in this institutions, and about 60% of them were children or teenagers.

It appears that the trend has caught on in the UK and over here in the United States. Both countries have recently opened Internet addiction clinics for those of us who spend countless hours surfing the net. The only difference is, you can't beat your patients to death.

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