Games and live streaming suspended in China for day of mourning

So, the Communist Party of China ordered online services like gaming and video streaming to be turned off for 24 yours on the traditional Tomb Sweeping Holiday (4/4/2020)?

"... As a result, many forms of online entertainment were unavailable as China’s tech companies responded to an order from the State Council to “stop all public entertainment activities.” Tencent and NetEase, China’s two biggest gaming companies, both shut down game servers for 24 hours. ... And non-gamers didn’t fare much better. The country's biggest video streaming sites stopped updating shows for the day and made their websites black and white. Tencent Video, Baidu's iQiyi and Alibaba's Youku all participated."

Games and live streaming suspended in China for day of mourning - China’s Tomb-Sweeping Day was turned into a day of mourning for coronavirus victims, with online entertainment shut down | Abacus: China’s Tomb-Sweeping Day was turned into a day of mourning for coronavirus victims, with online entertainment shut down

In China, wearing a mask won’t stop facial recognition anymore - The coronavirus is prompting facial recognition companies to develop solutions for those with partially covered faces

I am glad that facial recognition appears to be in much wider use for every day convenience than e.g. in the U.S.. To unlock phones or gates or home/office doors are very convenient.

The fear of facial recognition in the West is quite exaggerated!

Wearing a mask won’t stop facial recognition anymore - The coronavirus is prompting facial recognition companies to develop solutions for those with partially covered faces | Abacus