China bans tough treatment of young Web addictsChina has issued rules banning the beating and confinement con·fine·ment n. 1. The act of restricting or the state of being restricted in movement. 2. Lying-in. confinement of youths being treated for Internet addiction after revelations of abuse at rehabilitation rehabilitation: see physical therapy. clinics, including the death of one teenager. The regulations posted on the health ministry's website Wednesday stressed that restraint must be used in dealing with such youngsters as "the concept of 'Internet addiction' has not been fully defined". It added: "Parents and teachers must analyse an·a·lyse v. Chiefly British Variant of analyze. analyse or US -lyze Verb [-lysing, -lysed] or -lyzing, the causes and not arbitrarily condemn, hit or scold SCOLD. A woman who by her habit of scolding becomes a nuisance to the neighborhood, is called a common scold. Vide Common Scold. youths... intervention methods that restrict personal freedom are strictly forbidden and corporal punishment corporal punishment, physical chastisement of an offender. At one extreme it includes the death penalty (see capital punishment), but the term usually refers to punishments like flogging, mutilation, and branding. Until c. (is) strictly forbidden." In August, the beating death of a teenage boy enrolled by his parents at an Internet addiction camp in southern China's Guangxi region provoked outrage across the country. The 15-year-old's death led to the discovery of abuse and beatings at other similar clinics. At the time, local press reports said China had up to 10 million teenage Web addicts and at least 400 private Internet rehabilitation clinics nationwide. Up to 60 percent of the nation's estimated online population of 338 million users were not of adult age, the health ministry said. 
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