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.

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 [...]