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The patients - all teenagers or in their 20s - are sent to the centre because their parents believe they spend too much time on the internet.

At the moment there is no national register of camps, and none of them have been approved and inspected by government officials.

The ministry of health issued a notice in July banning the use of “electro-stimulation” that was being used to “cure” internet addicts.

But worried parents across China continue to send their children to the camps.

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BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Tough cure for China web addicts

Wow…I guess I should be at boot camp. Electroshock sounds like a perfect treatment, considering I’ll have too much confusion and memory loss to think about Tumblr (at least for 6 months or so).

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