OK, it's not that we expect the life of a political prisoner in China to be a cakewalk or anything.
But this just adds another layer of the surreal to the whole Kafka-like experience.
Apparently, guards in China are making extra cash by forcing prisoners, who are already spending their days doing hard labor, to stay up late and play online video games like World of Warcraft. The guards make money by selling the credits and points that the prisoners get to other players. In online-nerd speak, it's called "gold farming" and it seems to be pretty lucrative -- at least in China, which has the largest population of online gamers in the world.
Normally, we'd try to think of something clever to say – but there's nothing funny about an experience created to entertain and help people pass the time being turned into a form torture.
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