Comment on Roblox gets banned indefinitely in Turkey over “child exploitation”

• Banichan@dormi.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Sounds like a normal business that gives kids a chance to make money.

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  • Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Its exploiting child labor and the impulsive brain chemistry of adolescence.

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    • themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Fair enough, but couldn’t the same be said about YouTube? They also take the biggest cut of the ad money for creators.

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      • Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yes. Using kids to drive engagement on YouTube is exploitative. Parents who do that are exploiting their children

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    • Banichan@dormi.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      “labor” 😂

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      • Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        What would you call it when a child does work that you profit from?

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      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Doesn’t matter what you call it. It’s profitable and you know that’s what’s meant.

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      • ZeroHora@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Is labor. There is a whole market of Roblox related things, there are job sites, freelance sites that employ kids to work on design/programming/marketing of these game modes. To pay them the game currency that maybe later can be traded for real money.

        Is not just kids tinkering with the game.

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  • emuspawn@orbiting.observer ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The children yearn for the mines

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  • mashbooq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    A normal business, yes. Normal businesses are highly and cruelly exploitative, which is why we decided 80 years ago that children, at the very least, should be protected from them.

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  • Summzashi@lemmy.one ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Can’t tell if you’re kidding.

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• ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Isn’t it more like 2%

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