Wired Magazine has an excellent article about the wonders (or lack thereof) of those Internet rehab centers in China, and to me they sound like Guantanamo Bay, but worse. They beat you up more than a BDSM junkie would in his lifetime.

Worst part? People are overreactive over their kids and their “addiction”, because most of the time they’re just letting off steam, not exactly playing 24 hours straight and feeling suicidal when they aren’t playing. They’re only normal.

Recently, Deng Fei came to a conclusion: His son was never addicted. “He didn’t smoke, he didn’t drink. The Internet was probably his way to vent the pressure on him,” he says, staring at his feet. “We didn’t know that then. But we know that now. It wasn’t really an addiction. It was his way out of the pressure of being a student.” Zhou Juan raises her head. “He didn’t even play that much,” she says.

Too late to come to that conclusion, wasn’t it?