Internet Addicts Stage Daring Escape at Chinese boot Camp

• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-06-08 23:28
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  BEIJING (AFP) – A group of young Chinese web addicts staged a mutiny at an Internet "boot camp", tying up their instructor and fleeing the facility over its tough military-like techniques, state media said Tuesday.
  
  The 14 mutineers, aged 15 to 22, were all caught by police when they failed to pay a taxi fare following their escape from the rehabilitation centre in east China's Jiangsu province last week, the Global Times said.
  
  They had tied up their supervisor in his bed to allow them to escape the "monotonous work and intensive training" at the camp, it said.
  
  Parents of 13 of the Internet addicts have already sent them back to the Huai'an Internet Addiction Treatment Centre after picking them up at a local police station, the paper said.
  
  "We need to teach them some discipline and help them to establish a regular lifestyle," the paper quoted an employee at the camp as saying.
  
  "We have to use military-style methods such as total immersion and physical training on these young people."
  
  Last month, a court in the southern region of Guangxi sentenced two Internet boot camp instructors to up to 10 years in prison after a 15-year-old addict was beaten to death at the facility.
  
  The August 2009 death followed a string of abuse reported by state media at numerous unregistered Internet treatment centres around China.
  
  According to the China Youth Association for Network Development, there are up to 24 million Chinese adolescents addicted to the Internet, with up to half of them obsessed by online gaming, the Global Times said.
  
  The government said in a white paper on the Internet released Tuesday that it was committed to the "online safety" of minors, noting that it would take measures to keep young people from "overindulging in the Internet".

  
  
  Internet addicts stage uprising at China boot camp - Yahoo! News
  
  and you wonder what the other half of the internet people do
  
  also,
  
  Parents who don't know how to take care of their children send them to boot camp
  how wonderful
• Hiccup wrote on 2010-06-08 23:43
  Cause the parents dont wanna deal with it
• Magenera wrote on 2010-06-09 00:08
  But at least the training is working, eh, eh..... okay I shut up now.
• Piko wrote on 2010-06-09 00:10
  They really didn't plan out what they'd do after they escaped, did they?
• Time wrote on 2010-06-09 00:46
  Can the parents be sent to parenting boot camp as-well?
• Akemisumi wrote on 2010-06-09 00:52
  Parents sent them to boot camp for Internet addiction? Try taking the computer away.
• Intex wrote on 2010-06-09 01:07

  Quote from Akemisumi;57975:

  Parents sent them to boot camp for Internet addiction? Try taking the computer away.

  
  
  Parents don't have the amount of control on their kids that most people here are used to.
  
  There are tons and tons of Internet Bars (网吧- wang ba) in China that are very cheap to use and come pre-installed with games like Diablo or Starcraft.
  Addicts can go to any one of these places and can play to their hearts content as long as they have money.
• Akemisumi wrote on 2010-06-09 01:13
  Woah! D: So you can just go to one of those places with a bunch of other people there, and just sit there for days playing?
• Intex wrote on 2010-06-09 01:30
  Yeah.... I passed a lot while I was staying with my female cousin.
  
  I told her I wanted to check one out, she wouldn't come with me.
  It's practically all men in their 20s, the whole place was dark and smoked out from all the cigarettes.
  Everyone was playing Diablo or something :\
  
  There are very high class internet bars that give you drinks, food, and a very nice private cubicle sort of room.
  They're probably hard to find though, we only walked by the trashy cheap ones.
  
  There were some (crap quality) reality TV in CN that followed some parents looking for their children in the internet bars.
  Pretty hard to track down someone in China lol.
• Akemisumi wrote on 2010-06-09 01:32
  Wow, that's amazing. I can't imagine being that obsessed to stay in a trashy, smoked out, cramped place playing computer games for days...Wait, don't they, like, kick you out after so long?
• Intex wrote on 2010-06-09 01:36

  Quote from Akemisumi;58013:

  Wow, that's amazing. I can't imagine being that obsessed to stay in a trashy, smoked out, cramped place playing computer games for days...Wait, don't they, like, kick you out after so long?

  
  
  People in China don't care as long as they get money :0
  
  Men in China all smoke anyways, I guess the smoke is like free bonus to them XD
• Akemisumi wrote on 2010-06-09 01:36
  Wow. That's all I can say. :o
• Chockeh wrote on 2010-06-09 02:32

  Quote from Intex;58012:

  Yeah.... I passed a lot while I was staying with my female cousin.
  
  I told her I wanted to check one out, she wouldn't come with me.
  It's practically all men in their 20s, the whole place was dark and smoked out from all the cigarettes.
  Everyone was playing Diablo or something :\
  
  There are very high class internet bars that give you drinks, food, and a very nice private cubicle sort of room.
  They're probably hard to find though, we only walked by the trashy cheap ones.
  
  There were some (crap quality) reality TV in CN that followed some parents looking for their children in the internet bars.
  Pretty hard to track down someone in China lol.

  
  I think that's all over Asia, cause I see a really HUGE room, or even little very cramped room in Philippines. Everyone is playing Ragnarok, CS:S or Rising Force.
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-06-09 03:43
  Korea and Japan are definitely cleaner...
• Shironi wrote on 2010-06-14 05:51

  Quote from Pikablu;57943:

  They really didn't plan out what they'd do after they escaped, did they?

  
  
  cause, you know, usually after you finish a quest the wolves' family doesn't come hunting after you, eh?