SKIRMISHER

The great thing about China’s attempt in saving the souls of its swarming population of Internet gaming addicts is how it brings back fond memories of the line, “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.”

The Chinese government has launched an anti-Internet addiction campaign which includes eight such clinics. Here patients are subjected to yelling, psychiatric counseling and the ever so helpful electrical shock treatments. Many patients are even given antidepressant drugs that you would commonly see in mental institutions. But it doesn’t stop there, some of the patients are actually de-facto prisoners because they are housed on military bases with metal bars for doors and windows.

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