Who is responsible for vetting every single adult involved in a children’s sport league? Or a primary school?
Is each individual parent responsible for doing their own vetting? That answer seems ridiculous to me.
If a company advertises its services as specifically targeted at children then I think we should put the onus on them to ensure that the environment they provide is safe for children.
Whether you think that making an online safe space is crazy is beside the point.
Roblox markets its space for kids. Nobody is forcing them to do that. But if they chose to, then they should be held to at lest the same standard as if they were offering an in person experience targeted at children.
Slapping “buyer beware, there may be pedophiles” on every in-person experience is something society has deemed unacceptable and require a higher standard of care on the parts of institutions working with children. That should not magically go away just because the experience happens online.
It should. You can’t keep your kid out off school, but keeping them off Roblox is incredibly easy; you just don’t pay for it.
Should Roblox try to keep their space safe? Of course. But the parents are the ones letting them go unsupervised on Roblox. I don’t let my kids do that.
"fails to protect children" is a strange way to say "actively exploits children"
I think roblox is built on child gambling, child labor, disgusting and aggressive marketing, psychological manipulations to make kids feel bad/anxious, and predators both sexual and corporate (including "avatar influencers" who are ads pretending to be friends with children). The entire platform should be shut down.
I always come back to one question.
Who is responsible for your kids?