{"id":7190,"date":"2011-05-27T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/?p=7190"},"modified":"2023-12-14T16:21:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T22:21:28","slug":"chinese-labor-camps-prisoners-forced-to-level-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2011\/05\/chinese-labor-camps-prisoners-forced-to-level-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Labor Camps Prisoners Forced to &#8230; level up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-thumbnail\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/computer-slave\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7188\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-attachment-id=\"7188\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/computer-slave\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/computer-slave.jpg?fit=508%2C302&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"508,302\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"computer slave\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/computer-slave.jpg?fit=508%2C302&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/computer-slave.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7188\" title=\"computer slave\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/computer-slave.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/computer-slave.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/computer-slave.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:2913,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Video_game_addiction#China_2&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260811154603\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Video_game_addiction&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-08-20 13:47:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-08-20 13:47:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We all know doing hard time sucks. Well, that&#8217;s the rumor anyway. I&#8217;m the product of a middle class suburban household. <strong>Moving on<\/strong>. According to a prisoner from the Jixi labor camp, inmates were &#8220;forced&#8221; to play video games for hours on end. 12 hours on end, to be precise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although I find it difficult for this <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Video_game_addiction#China_2\">to be considered &#8220;punishment&#8221;<\/a> I think that it says a lot about the state of things these days. According to the prisoner, it was far more lucrative for the prison bosses to have 300 prisoners build up gold to sell to people who purposely chain themselves to their computers for 12 hours a day than it was to make the prisoners do <em>actual labor.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prisoners forced to play video games for 12 hours? 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