China Bans Electroshock Therapy for “Internet Addiction”
The Chinese government has banned the controversial use of electroconvulsive therapy, or shock therapy, to treat the controversial diagnosis of “Internet addiction.” With an estimated 300 million Internet users, China has been grappling with how to keep avid Web surfers from spending their whole lives online, and various clinics have sprung up, offering parents the chance to “cure” their children of the uncontrollable urge to blog or play online games.
Obviously the failure here isn’t the fact that they banned the practice. Human rights just got a little bit better in the world’s next superpower.
