Alway the hidden endboss surprise.
Roblox is one of the most evil companies in the world, actively exploiting children for profit and for cheap labor. A joke for safety guardrails (you can’t even restrict your child from adding anyone as a friend or restrict them from receiving friend requests from total strangers, all you can do is block them after the fact). They allow children to create accounts with no email or verification so that they can get around parental controls and engage with predators if they are motivated and resourceful
Evidence of predators abusing children on their app and their response is to silence the people shining the light on it.
There may be good things that come from Roblox but it’s ran by some of the most despicable people and is a net negative in the world in my opinion
This could potentially be done with an identity system that allows a company to verify the age a user while not knowing anything else. Although I trust pretty much nobody to do it while respecting privacy and security.
The “something worse” is CEOs giving zero fucks about the harm they cause to society at large.
Imagine the levels of depravity and lunacy you have to sink to to just accept this happening on your platform, to see the harm you are causing society but choosing to ignore it because profits come first.
That’s why CEOs are a disgusting stain on this world, among others. They have ejected empathy and decency and become profit-driven, capitalism goblins.
And a culture with a a very accepting view of pedophilia.
You mean the 40 people out of 131,000,000 who had parents that let them be unsupervised on Roblox?
Really, that sounds like Roblox has very little problems.
yea, fuck those kids, they surely had it coming /s
Not what I’m saying. Just saying that there’s 131 million players and blaming Roblox for like 40 incidents is dumb. That’s like 0.0000012%. 700 kids a year die from being hit by cars. 900 kids a year die from drowning. 500 kids every year are murdered by their own parents.
Saying Roblox is to blame when it’s such a comparatively small amount of everything else in the world is stupid. You can’t sterilize the planet from danger. Roblox isn’t even a blip when compared to most other things.
Since 2018, at least two dozen people in the United States have been arrested and accused of abducting or abusing victims they met on Roblox
These are only the ones who got caught, by the way. And only in the US. What an absolute shitshow.
Yeah, capitalism.
LMAO! Ffs……
like video games wouldn’t exist under any other system of government. Granted China banned it- but only because of china’s need to control its citizens via unreasonable censorship laws. Not surprisingly, Cuba also has banned it for the same reason- and also NOT because of predatory use of it.
So in fairness, there’s two communist shitholes that don’t allow it.
Maybe that’s your argument all along?
Is it really accurate to call Roblox a video game? Seems more like a pedophile hangout den to me. What’s more reasonable? The country that banned the pedophile hangout den or the one that encourages it to flourish? Seems obvious to me which country is the real shithole. Taking the side of pedophiles seems like an odd stance on your part, but go off king.
Fucking hilarious! Thanks for that. It’s been a rough night.
Right! lol… I forgot. All people rage when an edgy debate bro declares themselves the winner of a non-existent argument just because someone doesn’t want to waste their time.
And by all means, please post some more of those sick memes bruh! I swear I’m not blocking you after I post this!
Why wouldn’t video games exist under anything but capitalism? Communists still had movies? And also the USSR produced one of the most famous, well recieved and respected games that is still around today.
lol! Never change lemmy.
I notice you have no actual refute, interesting
I’m not here to argue, therefore- there’s no need to refute. I don’t see conversation as sport, though it appears that you do.
I added my opinion into what I assumed was a public discussion. I make no apologies that you dislike or disagree with it.
You don’t have to apologize for having silly brain. It’s not your fault.
Classic lemmy!
The very idea of a user-generated content free-to-play MMO for children with whack-a-mole moderation is totally bananas. Even good whack-a-mole moderation would be a bananas design.
I’m okay with little kids online gaming, but it needs to be in content that has been approved by a responsible adult in a setting where either adults are actively supervising or the children are on a server where we know everybody who’s in there.
like fucking neopets has existed for SCORES longer than roblox and i’ve yet to see a massive neopets-pedophile scandal. much less one that the company seems to publically ignore as much as is legally possible.
clearly it’s something you CAN prevent!
I haven’t played neopets, is there something about its design that would make the situation better than roblox?
Less interaction, probably. It’s been >20 years since I even went to the site, so my take is probably old and useless, just like me. The only interactions between people were the ‘fights’ where you might have seen their name for less than two minutes. There was a forum where you might have talked with people, and a ‘newspaper’ where people could submit stories. I think that’s actually where I found my fondness for fanfiction. There are always a few gems hidden in the galaxy of rotted milk that exists in the written word.
Weren’t there also player run shops, complete with fully HTML customizable store front pages?
Also weren’t fully customizable html home pages, not unlike MySpace pages, a thing in Neopets? I could swear I had one, but maybe I’m remembering wrong?
Also there was a private message system if I recall correctly that could be used to send a message to any other Neopets user.
I remember the shops, but not any interactions through them. I don’t remember much other than setting a price on items, so maybe there were opportunities there. And yes, private messages were a thing.
Roblox is permanently banned from this household and I suspect this will become a lot more common.
We need to end the infinite smorgasboard model. That goes for all streaming services and Youtube as well. It’s breaking this entire generation of children and history will 100% look back on it as just as bad as drugs and alcohol, if not worse.
