Deaddiction centers in China for internet addicts

It has happened in eastern China where, at the Addiction Treatment Center, more than 6,000 Internet addicts - most of them teenagers - had their Web access taken away and were also treated with electroshock therapy. The center is in Shandong province and had made headlines in September because one of its patients killed her mother in retribution for abuse she had purportedly suffered at the camp during a forced detox program.
This has been reported in telegraphindia.com dated 15 January 2017.

China is making attempts to regulate such camps as these have become a last resort for parents who are exasperated by their child's habit of playing online games for hours on end. There are proposals to limit how much time each day minors could play online games at home or in Internet cafes. It would be obligatory for providers of the games to take suitable measures to monitor and restrict use. These could be to require players to register under their real names.
The law does not as yet indicate the number of hours allowed, but minors would be prohibited from playing online games anywhere between midnight and 8 a.m.


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