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Roblox, a platform celebrated for fostering creativity and connection among children and teens, harbors a darker underbelly that has harmed countless young users. Learn more now.

Roblox, an online gaming platform that supposedly fosters creativity and connection among children and teens, harbors a darker underbelly that has harmed countless young users for years. Families nationwide are coming forward with stories of how predators, explicit content, and exploitation pervade this digital playground. The attorneys at Anapol Weiss have filed four lawsuits against Roblox on behalf of children from various parts of the U.S. (Florida, Indiana, New Jersey, Texas) who were sexually exploited on the Roblox platform. Anapol Weiss is investigating hundreds of similar cases and will be filing many more lawsuits in the upcoming months.

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  • celeste@kbin.earth
    35·
    22 hours ago

    I get reminded of this quote from their studio exec:

    “You can say, ‘Okay, we are exploiting, you know, child labor,’ right? Or you can say: we are offering people anywhere in the world the capability to get a job, and even like an income,” Corazza said. “So I can be like, 15 years old, in Indonesia, living in a slum, and then now with just a laptop, I can create something, make money, and then sustain my life.”

    When I read that quote a few weeks ago, I thought about how that’s the kind of argument people who travel abroad to rape kids use to justify themselves.

    It feels related to this, somehow. Maybe something about how children are treated like a disposable resource or an object to be used unless the person who owns them (parents?) are powerful, well to do, white, etc, etc. And that’s because their owner is those things, so they’re valuable property. I’m not sure if I’m articulating myself well. Too much sun.

    • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      16 hours ago

      There was a quote in the last season of Mythic Quest that was functionally verbatim to that quote. I can’t believe it’s actually a real quote.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      21 hours ago

      It’s a valid argument, but it’s not supported by their actions, which are demonstrably exploitative.

      And not really comparable to rape, especially child rape, due to consent obviously; there is no non-exploitative form of that. Sex work is work, but children can never give informed consent, and even adult sex tourism is almost always exploitative.

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      18 hours ago

      The article brings up good criticisms, like all the minors getting molested due to the platform being negligent, and manipulative in game spending options. Paying for online content creation work doesn’t seem as bad as that to me though.