Roblox, Age and Child Safety
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Roblox says it’s added more than 145 new safety features, but Schlep argues the company’s latest statement dodges every point from his viral exposé.
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Popular gaming app, Roblox, rolling out new safety feature
The gaming app, Roblox, is rolling out a new safety feature. The platform requires age checks to ensure that users are talking to other users in a similar age group. The gaming app is facing dozens of lawsuits around the country, including outside Florida, related to the abuse of sexual exploitation of children.
Roblox has just been hit with another lawsuit over its child safety issues. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on social media on Thursday that the state was suing Roblox for "putting pixel pedophiles and profits over the safety of Texas children."
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida’s attorney general issued a subpoena to the popular online gaming platform Roblox on Monday, demanding information about how the platform sets age-verification requirements, moderates chat rooms, and markets itself to ...
Rumors that Roblox is shutting down are spreading across social media, fueled by growing concerns over the platform’s ability to protect its young players. The speculation comes as the company faces mounting criticism, a lawsuit from the Louisiana ...
Roblox has responded to the state of Louisiana's lawsuit alleging that the popular game facilitated the exploitation of children.
And it’s getting sued…again. As sad as it sounds, video games have always been the focus of many controversies. Some of them have been overblown, like they’re “turning kids’ brains into mush,” which we know isn’t true. Some of them have been ...
Cecilia D'Anastasio covers game culture and industry for Bloomberg. She conducted an investigation into how child predators groomed children on the platform before Uthmeier started his messaging. I spoke with her about it.
Roblox CEO David Baszucki joined CNN’s Pamela Brown to discuss new safety measures to protect young users, including AI-age verification technology. The announcement comes after a growing number of lawsuits that say the platform allegedly failed to deter sexual predators from targeting minors on the popular gaming platform.