Roblox's New Child Safety Changes Reveal How Dangerous It's Been For Years

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• echolalia@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There are no checks whatsoever, no email or phone number required, no verification options—it just hands you an account for a 99-year-old, with full access to all chat features. (It took maybe five clicks from having no account to being able to play Blood & Gore.)

  Come on now Kotaku. I was a kid once on the internet. I lied about my age once to sign up for Neopets, which had text forums, private messages and user-created pages. You could even use HTML and hotlink images. It really wasn’t a big deal because my parents paid attention to what I did online, and the audience of the website was just children or people who wanted to play a simple game.

  My mom ended up playing it, so she must have known I lied about my age to get access. She had hella neopoints.

  For content marked 17+, you do need to verify your age with documentation

  WHY IS THERE CONTENT FOR 17+ ON ROBLOX? Isn’t this the TRUE child safety problem? Why do this at all? Why attract people looking for 17+ content on a platform for children??? I read that Hindenburg report, the entire platform is a mess. This company deserves to fail and those investors deserve to be left holding the bag.

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• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Roblox exploits child labor for profit

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• richardisaguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  this image is one of the shittiest photoshop jobs i’ve ever seen

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• burgersc12@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ahh yes the thing with the stock market and the random games made by anyone, totally safe for kids!

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