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Can we talk about the Roblox situation? (lemmy.eco.br)
submitted 5 days ago by descartador@lemmy.eco.br to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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If anyone can make a compilation of news and articles in the facts, that would be great.

For those who don't know, Roblox is a publicly traded company and they are down almost 2bn dol on the stock market because they are being accused of facilitating the sexual exploration and grooming of children.

They just banned a player who was groomed by a roblox developer and then started a catch a predator project that resulted in the arrest of 6 adults accused of predating on children using the game.

Chris Hansen contacted the player and they are doing a documentary on the sexual predation that occurs on the plataform. There is a class action, so if you are in the US and know someone who has been abused on roblox, you should contact them.

I don't know much about the situation, I just watched a couple articles about it.

To top it all off, the CEO announced that roblox is pivoting to becoming a dating website. This is not the onion, fellers.

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[–] Kwakigra@beehaw.org 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)

This is, very unfortunately, what happens in every internet space which is targeted towards children and allows communication among users. It is by far the easiest way for anonymous predatory adults to make contact with typically unattended children. I would like at some point to see a child-oriented space on the internet have the highest priority of children's safety at some point, but there hasn't been one yet.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago

I mean I'm sure there's been some... but well how popular would they be. I mean the long and short of how it has to be done... no private messages, all public messages heavily monitored. Which unfortunately isn't a recipe for making a site popular with kids.

[–] descartador@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

But is roblox facilitating and monetizing sexual predation?

[–] Kwakigra@beehaw.org 6 points 5 days ago

Definitely. They could do something about this but they would make less profit.