Blue Whale suicide game: Govt orders Google, Facebook, WhatsApp to remove dangerous online challenge. To guarantee security of individuals on the web, particularly of kids, the Indian government has asked online networking and web mammoths like Facebook, Google, WhatsApp, Instagram among others to dispose of the connections to the ‘Blue Whale’ suicide amusement.

1. Blue Whale suicide game: Govt orders
Google, Facebook, WhatsApp to
remove dangerous online challenge
To guarantee security of individuals on the web, particularly of kids, the Indian
government has asked online networking and web mammoths like Facebook,
Google, WhatsApp, Instagram among others to dispose of the connections to
the ‘Blue Whale’ suicide amusement. Blue Whale, an unsafe test accessible on
the web, has apparently prompted suicide in kids everywhere throughout the
world including India. In a solid response, there has been a developing interest
from individuals everywhere throughout the nation to prohibit this diversion
from web. In the interim, the service of gadgets and IT (MEITY) composed a
letter on August 11 to all the web majors, including Microsoft and Yahoo,
requesting that they take measures against it.
In the letter, the service stated, “Occurrences of kids conferring suicide while
Blue Whale Challenge have been accounted for in India… You are thus asked
for to guarantee that any such connection of this dangerous amusement in its
own particular name or comparable diversion is instantly expelled from your
stage.” The letter was issued following guidelines from the law and IT serve
Ravi Shankar Prasad, an official source told PTI. Indeed, Maneka Gandhi, the
Minister for Women and Child Development, had kept in touch with the
Electronics Ministry to boycott the online test amusement. Service of Child
and Development said in a progression of tweets, “@Manekagandhibjp on
Monday brought up the issue with Home Minister @rajnathsingh and IT
Minister @rsprasad and has asked for that the test be expelled from online
networking by reasonable intercession.” The letter additionally specifies that
the fatal amusement is accepted to have prompted about 100 passings in the
US, China and different nations.
The zenith body for kid rights, National Commission for Protection of Child
Rights (NCPCR), had likewise kept in touch with the service of gadgets and
data innovation thrice on the issue since May requesting that it recognize
violators, as per a service representative.

2. The Blue Whale amusement is a 50-day challenge which requests that players
finish assignments given by an unknown “handler”. The “handler” educates
the players to cause self-hurt, paving the way to suicide. The deadly pattern in
the nation became exposed when a 14-year-old kid hopped from the fifth floor
of a working in Mumbai prior this month.