I am watching YouTubers showing these things for years to the public. Somehow people don't really seem to care at all.

Roblox is really really weird.

Delphiza 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I try to comment on Roblox whenever it comes up as my daughter was pulled into a grooming pedo gang through Roblox.

Read some of the comments from a HN thread from 3 years ago where HN parents insist that they are able to properly educate and self-censor. Enough people don't care (enough), despite Roblox being called out all the time by people with big platforms.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32014754#32015542

I am shocked that Roblox has not been shut down, not by regulators, but by parents flat-out denying access. All evidence suggests that yes, it is that bad.

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fragmede 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Somehow people don't really seem to care at all.

> I am watching YouTubers showing these things for years to the public.

I'm confused, aren't "YouTubers who make videos about the problem" people? They seem to care so much that they've put money, time, and energy into creating videos illustrating the problem.

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lenerdenator 7 hours ago | parent [-]

They're people, but they're not politicians or regulators with the ability to do anything about it.

At a certain point, you need to have a statute that says "thou shalt not offer cybersex and online gambling to children", and you need someone with the statutory authority to charge Roblox with doing so and penalize them after due process. Either we don't have that statute, or the people with the statutory authority don't enforce things like they should.

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socalgal2 6 hours ago | parent [-]

> you need someone with the statutory authority to charge Roblox

Roblox didn't put up the content. Some user did. The user should be charged.

	▲	herbst an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That's where people understand Roblox wrong, they do actually manually pick and promote some of these dangerious "games" on their homepage. Which kinda makes it to "their content"
	▲	mghackerlady 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Right, but it's also the responsibility of Roblox to moderate and avoid those things from happening, especially when their product is both aimed primarily at children with a userbase of mostly children
	▲	pixl97 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Cool then, to post robox content you need to have a verified ID.