No country has gone quite as far as China in embracing the theory and mounting a public crusade against Internet addiction, reports The Washington Post.
To skeptics, the campaign dovetails a bit too nicely with China’s broader effort to control what its citizens can see on the Internet. The Communist government runs a massive program that limits Web access, censors sites and seeks to control online political dissent.
Picture left of a 12-year-old boy is treated with a series of low-voltage shocks in a therapy that doctors at an Internet addiction clinic in China say helps patients sleep better.
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Sadly, most popular use for net in U.S. seems to be for porn, not IQ building stuff, China just has to be careful to keep its intellectual lead over the U.S. so that schlock-meisters like Timmy Geithner don’t talk them out of Trillions of Dollars in loans!