The following censorship instructions have been distributed online. In order to create a festive and harmonious atmosphere for online discourse during Spring Festival, the Central Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has...
China’s population of internet users broke 700 million this year, and government reports...
China’s State Council introduced a new draft law today that will bring an end to the abusive...
The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos comments on the politically-tinged medicalization of Internet...
At Games In Asia, Charles Custer reports on the recent death of a 19-year-old patient at an...
The New York Times’ Op-Doc series goes inside a treatment facility outside Beijing treating...
According to new figures from the China Internet Network Information Center, there are now 591 million Internet users in China. AP reports: China’s population of Internet users has grown to 591 million, driven by a 20...
Police have mounted large-scale raids on two child-trafficking gangs, according to authorities, arresting 369 and rescuing 89 children. From the Associated Press: The busts highlighted China’s thriving black market in...
AFP reports: 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...
The Chinese government has banned the use of any physical punishment in Chinese internet addiction clinics: Many of the camps are imbued with a military atmosphere. Patients are forced to replace hours in front of the computer...
Danwei translates a video parodying treatments for Internet addiction: The clips that make up this spoof are taken from the CCTV program “War With the Internet Demon” (战网魔), broadcast in 2008. The program was...
China Daily is reporting that an editor whose paper reported on the death of a teenager at an Internet addiction rehab clinic has been fired by local officials: Liu first broke the story about the beating death of 15-year-old...
Following the death of a teenager in an Internet addiction clinic, Southern Metropolis Daily visited a related facility in Guangzhou. Danwei translates: When the reporter arrived outside the rear wall of the school, children on...
Good news for China’s Internet addicts. From Reuters: China has banned electro-shock therapy as a treatment for Internet addiction, citing uncertainty in the safety and effectiveness of the practice after criticism in the...
From The Sunday Times: Chinese teenagers hooked on the internet are being subjected to electro-shock therapy at a clinic that claims they will be “reborn” free of the obsession. However, its harsh methods have caused an outcry...
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,...
Xinhua reports that China’s “anti-online game addiction system” has been effective in abating the number of online game players: China developed the anti-online game addiction system in July 2007 to reduce...
Many Chinese teenagers are sent to a military compound in Beijing by their parents to detox from an Internet obsession, from Time: Even though it was just before Lunar New Year–the most important family holiday on the...
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