How would you limit a teenagers access to t'interweb?

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In a treatment that equates Internet addicts to mentally ill people, China is giving electric shocks to people who spend more time on the Internet than required. The Chinese government has launched a nationwide campaign to treat "Internet addiction" and many Internet-addiction clinics have been opened in this regard.

A recent survey found that nearly 14 percent of teens in China are vulnerable to becoming addicted to the Internet. The Communist Youth League calls it a "a grave social problem" that threatens the youth of this Asian country.

According to the Washington Post, one such clinic in Daxing, a suburb of Beijing, the capital, is the oldest and largest and is located on an army training base. It has 60 patients on a normal day and as many as 280 during peak periods.

The age group of the patients range from 12 to 24, who have been forced to come by their parents and are paying upward of $1,300 a month. It is almost 10 times the average salary in China for the treatment.

So, China is taking the lead on internet addiction by zapping youngsters as they sit at the keyboard. Maybe the national grid was being drained each time Britney Spears did something stupid and there are only so many valleys you can flood to provide hydroelectric power.

Speaking as someone who spends at least 5 hours a day on the internet (mainly finding stories and pictures for this site; not to mention writing witty captions and fun poll questions. Are you grateful? Are you bollocks. I don't know why I bother.) it hasn't affected my social skills, but then I didn't have many to start with.

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