Comment on Roblox Retaliates Against Child Abuse Survivor Who Exposed Platform's Predator Problem
octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
Can someone give me the out-of-the-loop on Roblox?
I understand that it’s an online gaming platform where there have been accusations of things being unsafe for kis. While bad, this is something that has happened before. Anything specific here that this is in the news so much, or just that it’s the biggest most current example?
uhmbah@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
trane69@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It’s free to play, meaning it’s literally the most popular game amongst kids, and if a pedo is banned they just make a new account. It has always been a problem and Roblox is under fire for A) their unwillingness to truly fight the problem and B) going after those who are (like in this article). Roblox also does shit like announce Roblox Dating where they very specifically in the PowerPoint slides state that it’s for users 17+. Not 18+. At this point the simplest explanation is that the Roblox creators/executives have a penchant for children themselves.
octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
Thank you very much!
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 4 days ago
17+
Gross. Just, gross. I wouldn’t want to date a 20 year old still in highschool, why would I want to date a 17 year old? Like this isn’t hard to be not stupid.
peetabix@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
From peoplemakegames: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ and their follow-up video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY
cybirdman@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
The company was recently sued for creating a platform using almost exclusively child labor
The problem is while their target audience is kids, it is heavily monetized and created a market and economy around child created content. It is also impossible to moderate and became a cesspool of predators.
The game itself is comprised of an infinite number of mini games you can try, most of them created by children. Some of them are of a sexual nature and not safe for kids. This makes it really easy for a predator to set up environments where they can groom children.
The players can earn buy robux with real money and spend this to advertise the games they create, or buy customization items or game passes. They also earn robux when people play their games to incentivize them to create more content. Because of this the company is being sued for essentially child labor, where all their profits revolve around child created games
When I was younger I would also play modded games and create content. I dont think there’s anything wrong with that. But the fact that the game monetized it to such an extent is wrong in my opinion. With the predator problem as well it makes it a really unsafe playform for children. As a parent I would never let my children play this.
octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
Thank you very much! I mentioned it to my oldest son (who is now in his twenties) a couple years ago because my youngest son (who is autistic) seemed like he might be interested in the game. He very emphatically said it wasn’t really what it looked like and that he would not recommend it. I didn’t ask for more details, but I guess I get it!
roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It’s also used as a recruiting platform by white supremacists.
octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
Jesus. How is this thing still a thing? (I guess that’s also part of the answer to my prior question…)
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 4 days ago
Leads me to a question, like someone from Russia where we have our problem of casual racism, but not quite the clean nature of the US one, we have racism very diverse and dependent on the context (some think A are better than B, some that they are equal, but A and B sleeping together warrant a murder, some that A are better than B, but them sleeping together is fine, some that A and B are equal, but should be eternally hostile and don’t owe each other noble conduct, or maybe both inequality and segregation, but noble conduct is owed always … we have multitude of kinds, and for multitude of separations, and in general it’s not a clear and firm problem).
And by you using such a designation it seems you are from the US.
How do your non-supremacists (average people) react to a statement that they are exactly as good as black people? How do your supremacists react to such?
(Say, here the first kind would generally not understand why would you say that, or laugh and joke something about how in the ideal world you would be right ; and the second kind would generally respond with sarcasm.)
k0e3@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
How did we go from “Mortal Kombat bad!!!” to “white-supremacist pedophiles are good for business,” in 30 years? I hate this fucking world so much.
dil@piefed.zip 3 days ago
vrchat is also like this + furries, they also kinda groom them into furries by not allowing them into their exclusive clubs and kinda bullying them into being one, saw a video on it, discord cults too