Inside China’s Fight Against Internet Addiction

The U.S.-based Center for Internet Addiction Recovery classifies the disorder as compulsive behavior in which “the Internet becomes the organizing principle of addicts’ lives.”

Tao Ran, director of the Beijing treatment center and a colonel in the People’s Liberation Army, helped come up with a strict definition for Internet addiction last fall: consecutive useage of the web for six hours a day for three straight months is addiction. The new standard, which is still pending official endorsement by the Ministry of Health, has aroused widespread skepticism in Chinese cyberspace, with many arguing that too many people could be wrongly categorized as Internet addicts under this definition.

Chinese definition would include me!  And probably you too!!