{"id":103883,"date":"2017-08-15T13:33:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T08:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=103883"},"modified":"2017-08-15T13:33:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T08:03:43","slug":"remove-links-whale-suicide-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/remove-links-whale-suicide-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove links of whale suicide game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government has directed internet majors &#8212; Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Microsoft and Yahoo &#8212; to immediately remove the links of dangerous online game Blue Whale Challenge, which has reportedly led to deaths of children in India and other countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-103884 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/blue_whale.jpg\" alt=\"     Remove links of whale suicide game \" width=\"626\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/blue_whale.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/blue_whale-500x280.jpg 500w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/blue_whale-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Instances of children committing suicide while Blue Whale Challenge have been reported in India&#8230; You are hereby requested to ensure that any such link of this deadly game in its own name or similar game is immediately removed from your platform,&#8221; Ministry of Electronics and IT said in a letter to the internet majors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The letter was issued following instructions from Law and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, an official source said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Blue Whale challenge is reportedly a suicide game in which the player is given certain tasks to complete for a period of 50 days and the final task leads to suicide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has directed internet majors &#8212; Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Microsoft and Yahoo &#8212; to immediately remove the links of dangerous online game Blue Whale Challenge, which has reportedly led to deaths of children in India and other countries. &#8220;Instances of children committing suicide while Blue Whale Challenge have been reported in India&#8230; You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[6252,7958,4304,2339,510,8214,188,30166,52078,76,9731],"class_list":["post-103883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-countries","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-government","tag-india","tag-instagram","tag-internet","tag-microsoft","tag-remove-links-of-whale-suicide-game","tag-suicide","tag-whatsapp"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}