I Went To Chinese Internet Addiction Summer Camp And All I Got Was This Stupid Lobotomy
...Is what I'd say if they tried to send me off, and I was channeling Alan Sherman. Since contact with the outside world and having fun both threaten the Chinese government's heartless domination of the minds of its citizens (give a kid a Little Red Book and a DS and see which he falls immediately in love with), China has drummed up yet another evil plan to "protect" its people from "unhealthy cultural influences" and anything else that might clue them in to how oppressive and rigidly their government rules.
Summer camp for internet "addicts."
Camp Clockwork Orange, or as it translates from the Mandarin, "After-Springtime House of Healing and Forcible Removal of Sense of Individuality for Beloved Youth," is a 10-day program aimed at young people aged 14 to 22. All you need to enter is a psychological evaluation! By an unbiased non-ruling-party-member shrink, I'm sure.
Having already created laws to limit the amount of time young people can spend playing games, China still classifies 260,000 of its 20,000,000 underage internet users as addicts. No criteria for the classification has been provided.
How fun is that?
China hopes to cure Internet addicts at summer camp [Reuters]
[via Game|Life]
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Posted to Miscellany on 7 August 2007
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