Alice Xin Liu at Danwei translates a front cover article of the Morning Post, “No Computers Allowed for the Weekend”:
From 6 o’clock tonight, an alliance made up of many website administrators will make their websites go blank, some will have advertising banners and others creative ideas to remind people to shut down their computers over the weekend. They are also calling the websites of different communities to add the slogan: “No computers over the weekend” and “Use the Internet moderately” at the bottom of their sites. At the same time, web users who responded to the event will change their QQ and MSN status as “No computers over the weekend for 63 hours” [abbreviated as ‘NC63’].
The instigator of the event, Mr. Guan Shaobo (关少波) of Mosh.cn (魔时网) said, “Blank Screen Weekend” will be held over three days, community websites such as Tiantongyuan (天通苑) community website, and Bato.cn (八通网) have already joined us. People who “break the rules” have to be careful over the weekend: “Apart from being ‘blank screened,’ ‘NC63’ will also carry out mysterious offline activities.” From what Shaobo revealed to us, this weekend there be a “NC63 search team with invisible police dogs.” Therefore anyone who wants to use the Internet should be careful this weekend, because when the time comes there will be dozens of people who have responded to the event, and the NC63 volunteers, who have dramatic skills and dare of play, will use invisible “police dogs” on invisible dog leashes to go inside the city’s cafes “in search” of computer users in groups of seven.
