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Roblox Hit With Multimillion-Dollar Suit By Los Angeles, for Creating Largely Unsupervised Online World That Enables Predatory Pedophiles and Give Them Powerful Tools to Prey on Kids (lacounty.gov)
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The County of Los Angeles filed suit today against social media gaming platform Roblox alleging that the platform failed to protect children from predatory behavior. The lawsuit alleges that while Roblox markets itself as a safe digital space for creativity, it is in reality an unsafe online environment that has become a breeding ground for predators.

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[–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Set parental controls

This is what they are suing about.

Don't sign away the rights of other adults

What rights do you think are being "signed away" in this lawsuit about Roblox not providing functional parental controls and moderation?

I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding of what is actually happening here.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    Because those parents are pushing for age verification stuff, that has already been confirmed by hackers to be sent straight to the DOJ and ICE to make a database and link people's internet profiles to their real names. With possibly the intention to either arrest people for criticizing ICE, or deporting people they DEEM to be illegals.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    Thats not the only means of age verification.

    Do you know how they are doing verification currently? Because I bet you won't like it.

    Mandatory facial verification, processed by AI. This was the response made by Roblox to them being sued over having nonfunctional controls for parents, and doing nothing about the predators on their platform.

    So I'll ask again - what rights do you think are being taken away here?

    Edit: Just going to add this bit here.

    Tech journalist and former CNET senior writer Casey Newton asked what Baszucki (CEO) thinks of the "problem of predators" on the platform

    The response:

    We think of it not necessarily just as a problem, but an opportunity as well.

    This is not an "age verification" thing. This is a platform catering to predators.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Did you not read the Twitter thread? The facial verification is done by OpenAI and shared with Palantir, the DOJ, and ICE. Yes, including Roblox's. What makes you think the DOJ would NOT try to build a profile on someone going through age verification who's brown enough to be considered an "illegal" and possibly detain or deport them if they criticize ICE?

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Did you not read the part where I pointed out that it was Roblox who implemented that by choice?

    That this is how Roblox decided to try and avoid lawsuits for catering to predators?

    That these measures, as noted in the suit, do absolutely nothing and are easily defeated?

    That the issue goes far beyond their own decision to implement this form of age verification?

    I have the same question and you still have not answered, youre answering a question that I didnt ask that is unrelated.

    What rights are being signed away by this lawsuit?

    Edit: about/avoid autocorrect shenanigans.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Probably talking about invasive shit like what discord just did.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Which they are already doing in the shittiest way possible, and is only a small part of the problem the lawsuit notes.

    Which is why I've been asking, they can't answer because they dont know what they are talking about, they are concerned about a single (almost tangential) element of the problem - which Roblox already is doing, and only because they keep getting sued for catering to predators.

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