时间:2025-04-26 20:57:20 来源:网络整理编辑:焦點
For the past decade, concerned Chinese parents have been sending their internet-addicted teenagers t
For the past decade, concerned Chinese parents have been sending their internet-addicted teenagers to "boot camps" that claim to offer a cure.。
But teens have claimed that abuse is rampant in the camps; electric shock therapy and drugs are some of the "treatments" administered. People have died in the past in these rehab centres, as well.。
The Chinese government has now drafted a new law that aims to protect attendees from such abuse, the 。 The Chinese government has now drafted a new law that aims to protect attendees from such abuse, the 。South China Morning Post。
reported.。SEE ALSO:How even rural areas in China are hooked on online shopping 。
The cyberprotection law, if it goes into effect, will prevent these centres from abusing or threatening minors attending. 。
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The internet boot camps have profited in recent years because of high demand from parents seeking treatment for their children.。
Young Chinese people play online games or surf the Internet at an Internet cafe in Huaibei city, east China's Anhui province, 22 March 2015.Credit: Xie zhengyi/Imaginechina 。
One in five of the country's 750 million internet users are aged below 19, and China recognises internet addiction as a clinical disorder.。
Attendees have reported being shocked more than 135 times in 100 days in some boot camps, while those who misbehave or attempt to kill themselves are subjected to more electric shock therapy.。
An image on Weibo of the Shandong Science and Technology Defense Training Institute, where 16-year-old Chen Xinran was abducted, beaten and abused in an attempt to "cure" her internet addictionCredit: WEIBO。
Last year, a 16-year-old teenager named Chen Xinran tied her mother to a chair and put her up for ransom, in retaliation for being sent to an abusive internet addiction boot camp in Shandong.。
Chen wrote of her experiences in a blog post, where she told of how she was abducted and suffered various abuses under school officials, including being forced to eat in front of a latrine pit and regularly beaten.。After her story went viral, other teenagers stepped forward to claim that they too were tased, deprived of sleep and threatened at the Shandong boot camp.。This chart shows just how high Simone Biles can jump2025-04-26 20:53
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