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China Soul Searches its Obsession with Internet Addiction

David Bandurski of China Media Project has pulled together a number of comments on the highly criticized treatment methods used by Yang Yongxin in a Chinese Internet addiction clinic. Yang’s measures included, for one, electric shock. Commentary from Hu Yong: . . . So-called Internet addition refers to the repeated and excessive use of the Internet to the point that is becomes a kind of menta