“In China, teenagers’ online dependency has been a significant issue for a decade. In 2007 the China Communist Youth League claimed that over 17 per cent of its 13 to 17-year-olds were addicted to the internet, the following year the country became the first to declare internet addiction to be a clinical disorder and one of the top health threats to its young people.
As a result, 400 institutions have opened across the country to wean some of the 24 million young people off compulsive internet use, or “electric heroin”.”
Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola, and Jimmy Dore of The Young Turks discuss a new documentary which investigates China’s militaristic boot camps to cure internet addiction. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
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