Chinese Teen Beaten to Death at Internet Addiction Camp
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I hope you burn in hell and I teachers use the Internet more than twice as much to commemorate the victims of the poor? o_oPendragon9 said:
Anyway, this is just ... Gah. I hope those teachers get freaking sued and thrown in jail, there's just no excuse for something like that.
I guess no one ever adapted A Clockwork Orange into Mandarin.
In fact, maybe they shouldn't. It might give them ideas.
"I wondered then, as I wonder now, if he might not have turned out a very different boy indeed if you had administrated a few fatal beatings earlier." -Rowan Atkinson
In fact, maybe they shouldn't. It might give them ideas.
"I wondered then, as I wonder now, if he might not have turned out a very different boy indeed if you had administrated a few fatal beatings earlier." -Rowan Atkinson
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/82145/february-13-2007/the-word---apocalypse-mao--murdered-by-the-orient-s-success---frenemyAkJay said:
Wow......... Soooo its either be addited to the internet or be beaten to death by three chinese people in short shorts.
Make your choice everyone!
Make your choice everyone!
Well this kinda stuff does happen in China.
I would imagine that other countries such as a the UK and USA are just as 'addicted' to the internet, but it is seen as a larger problem in China.
I would imagine that other countries such as a the UK and USA are just as 'addicted' to the internet, but it is seen as a larger problem in China.
WHAT ARE YOU ALL DOING ONLINE.
GET BACK TO YOUR ASSIGNED ROOM IMMEDIATELY OR FACE BEATINGS.
What Luddite, Communist crap. If China thinks it can solve a psychological, spiritual crisis by beating it out of you, its not going to last much longer. In fact, if that happens it can be the first country to be killed by the Internet.
Internet Addiction Camp? since when did that ever sound effective?
Breaking the cycle of addiction requires prolonged, determined effort, not a short intensive burst of being clean.
I can guess that these camps force lots of physical labor because of the sedentary lifestyle these kids lead.
I could think of a far better system right now;
A return to boarding schools, specifically, State created Boarding Schools designed for children with Internet Addiction.
I mean, do i need to spell it out? A Boarding School with no outside Internet Connection and a radiowave jammer that obscures Wi-Fi and Cell Phone Signals. If the kids need to do research for a school project or something, make sure you have a well equipped library (perhaps equipped with computers programmed only to run Wikipedia or a Chinese equivalent).
Its not that hard, there's a friggin episode of Ghost in the Shell about it.
Breaking Addiction, be it to drugs, gambling or computers requires at least some understanding of the beast within, and then making the effort to resist it yourself. Exercise is good, but isn't the cure for an addiction. Making fat kids get off the computer and run isn't going to cure them, its going to make them hate running even more.
GET BACK TO YOUR ASSIGNED ROOM IMMEDIATELY OR FACE BEATINGS.
What Luddite, Communist crap. If China thinks it can solve a psychological, spiritual crisis by beating it out of you, its not going to last much longer. In fact, if that happens it can be the first country to be killed by the Internet.
Internet Addiction Camp? since when did that ever sound effective?
Breaking the cycle of addiction requires prolonged, determined effort, not a short intensive burst of being clean.
I can guess that these camps force lots of physical labor because of the sedentary lifestyle these kids lead.
I could think of a far better system right now;
A return to boarding schools, specifically, State created Boarding Schools designed for children with Internet Addiction.
I mean, do i need to spell it out? A Boarding School with no outside Internet Connection and a radiowave jammer that obscures Wi-Fi and Cell Phone Signals. If the kids need to do research for a school project or something, make sure you have a well equipped library (perhaps equipped with computers programmed only to run Wikipedia or a Chinese equivalent).
Its not that hard, there's a friggin episode of Ghost in the Shell about it.
Breaking Addiction, be it to drugs, gambling or computers requires at least some understanding of the beast within, and then making the effort to resist it yourself. Exercise is good, but isn't the cure for an addiction. Making fat kids get off the computer and run isn't going to cure them, its going to make them hate running even more.
I personally wonder if they got any money for damages, or does having over a billion people reduce the value of your citizens to a point that the government doesn't care about this sort of thing?mikecoulter said:
I wonder if the camp is going to be shut down or if the parents will "disappear". Anyway running isn't going to solve internet addiction.
Stupid internet translators. -_-Chaossebba said:
I'm going to use the internet twice as much to commemorate the boy who suffered unjustly.That's what I said. I also told the teachers to go to hell.
That's the last time I ever put trust in Google Translator.
Before you guys get too angry at China, their internet addiction camps are based off of an American model. These "tough love" camps that parents can send their children too have been around since the 70s and have had several casualties, while results have been inconsistent. Instead of banning the process the U.S. has legitimized them within their penal code in some states offering young offenders the option of going to them instead of more serious punishment. I'm having a hard time finding the exact data on the American deaths but I remember seeing it cited at the end of the movie "boot camp" starring Mila Kunis, which was based on a true story. Too bad that movie sucked though.
Edit: found the American data
http://www.secretprisonsforteens.dk/US_Main.htm
Edit 2: wow the more I look at this stuff the crazier it is at least a hundred kids are listed here as dying in American programs and they say most deaths don't get reported since the cases are settled out of court.
http://teenadvocatesusa.homestead.com/tribute1.html
http://outside.away.com/magazine/1095/10f_deth.html
Edit: found the American data
http://www.secretprisonsforteens.dk/US_Main.htm
Edit 2: wow the more I look at this stuff the crazier it is at least a hundred kids are listed here as dying in American programs and they say most deaths don't get reported since the cases are settled out of court.
http://teenadvocatesusa.homestead.com/tribute1.html
http://outside.away.com/magazine/1095/10f_deth.html
I think I just threw up. I'm usually an emotionless, heartless bastard but when someone dies for doing something that's their hobby? How would 3/4 of my fucking country would like it if I killed them for being football addicts.
Is there word for racism against hobbies or some such? If not we should make one up becuase this is a complete load bollocks.
Is there word for racism against hobbies or some such? If not we should make one up becuase this is a complete load bollocks.
I'm sure the teachers weren't trying to kill the boy. They were just frustrated from lack of internet and went too far.
Seriously, this sort of thing happens all the time, not just in China, but everywhere. And yet parents still keep sending thier children away to camps. Why? Because they do actualy work sometimes. They do actualy help. But just like everything else in life, there always has to be a couple of bad seeds, aweful events, people acting way too human, and they end up bringing a bad name to everything.
Also find it funny how bad you're willing to stand up for the game industry after someone is negatively influenced by it, but something likewise happens anywhere else and it's a totally different story.
edit: I would also like to point out, I am for the most part against camps. I think parents need to have more influence into thier children's lives instead of constantly relying on someone else to do thier job.
Seriously, this sort of thing happens all the time, not just in China, but everywhere. And yet parents still keep sending thier children away to camps. Why? Because they do actualy work sometimes. They do actualy help. But just like everything else in life, there always has to be a couple of bad seeds, aweful events, people acting way too human, and they end up bringing a bad name to everything.
Also find it funny how bad you're willing to stand up for the game industry after someone is negatively influenced by it, but something likewise happens anywhere else and it's a totally different story.
edit: I would also like to point out, I am for the most part against camps. I think parents need to have more influence into thier children's lives instead of constantly relying on someone else to do thier job.
Eh. You spend a few hours defending the gaming industry from news outlets and it becomes a kneejerk reaction to anything else. XD.New Troll said: