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Roblox is being sued by the Attorney General of Louisiana, alleging that the platform is knowingly facilitating child exploitation and knowingly intentionally failing to implement measures to protect children from predators and failing to inform parents and users of its dangers.
Roblox has historically had issues with predators and moderation in general. It took them years to take literally any action on an infamous predator who happened to be a content creator on the platform known as MisterObvious despite the advocacy of many at the time. There have been multiple cases as of recently of minors meeting predators online through Roblox and then either proceeding to get kidnapped and then raped by said predators or sexually extorted by said predators into doing even more embarassing/degenerate activities for their own enjoyment. Even today, there is an underground community on Roblox dedicated to erotic roleplay (known as condo games) and other similarly sexual creations where people are profiting in some way or another from allowing children to be groomed into unbelievable amounts of degeneracy.
Whenever people would bring this up to Roblox, their response was usually to just report them using the moderation system, which has been proven to be completely useless. As a result, certain people have had to take initiative to stop these predators themselves by any means necessary. One solution was to create a Discord bot to shitcan anyone found in condo-focused servers automatically to prevent them from joining innocent Roblox communities to spread their degeneracy like a disease, the outcome of which can be read about in my reply to another thread. Beware, it isn't a good ending. Another solution was to take initiative and work with law enforcement to catch predators and get them arrested, as popular YouTuber Schlep was doing.
Roblox recently decided to make the problem of predators on the platform go away. Did they finally listen to the community and implement better moderation or at least offer a direct line for one of the more well-known predator catchers to help clean up the platform? No. Roblox instead decided to ban every single account owned by Schlep and send a fucking Cease and Desist to him to stop him from creating future accounts and continue his work. That's right, they sent a legal threat to someone who was trying to get pedophiles arrested. Furthermore, Roblox decided then deter anyone else from trying to take Schlep's place by announcing that people who try to do what he did will be banned as well. They have since doubled down on this stance.
As a direct result of all this, Roblox is being sued by the Attorney General of Louisiana as mentioned above. I have attached the full lawsuit document, but you can access it along with the press release here as well. Discuss.
Louisiana Department of Justice Press Statement said:
Roblox has historically had issues with predators and moderation in general. It took them years to take literally any action on an infamous predator who happened to be a content creator on the platform known as MisterObvious despite the advocacy of many at the time. There have been multiple cases as of recently of minors meeting predators online through Roblox and then either proceeding to get kidnapped and then raped by said predators or sexually extorted by said predators into doing even more embarassing/degenerate activities for their own enjoyment. Even today, there is an underground community on Roblox dedicated to erotic roleplay (known as condo games) and other similarly sexual creations where people are profiting in some way or another from allowing children to be groomed into unbelievable amounts of degeneracy.
Whenever people would bring this up to Roblox, their response was usually to just report them using the moderation system, which has been proven to be completely useless. As a result, certain people have had to take initiative to stop these predators themselves by any means necessary. One solution was to create a Discord bot to shitcan anyone found in condo-focused servers automatically to prevent them from joining innocent Roblox communities to spread their degeneracy like a disease, the outcome of which can be read about in my reply to another thread. Beware, it isn't a good ending. Another solution was to take initiative and work with law enforcement to catch predators and get them arrested, as popular YouTuber Schlep was doing.
Roblox recently decided to make the problem of predators on the platform go away. Did they finally listen to the community and implement better moderation or at least offer a direct line for one of the more well-known predator catchers to help clean up the platform? No. Roblox instead decided to ban every single account owned by Schlep and send a fucking Cease and Desist to him to stop him from creating future accounts and continue his work. That's right, they sent a legal threat to someone who was trying to get pedophiles arrested. Furthermore, Roblox decided then deter anyone else from trying to take Schlep's place by announcing that people who try to do what he did will be banned as well. They have since doubled down on this stance.
