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Petition to remove Roblox CEO reaches 100k signatures amid child safety concerns

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  • NightlightN Nightlight

    Okay, I have a child. Can someone please explain to me what why this is a concern. I really want to know

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    woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    If it’s really pressing, you can Google it. There are many articles detailing the predatory business practices against children by Roblox.

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      bigtrout75@lemmy.world
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      Found this. https://m.imdb.com/es/news/ni65429148/

      If you enable parent controls, it’s probably safe, but hell,I didn’t know.

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      • NightlightN Nightlight

        Okay, I have a child. Can someone please explain to me what why this is a concern. I really want to know

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        bigtrout75@lemmy.world
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        Found this. https://m.imdb.com/es/news/ni65429148/

        If you enable parent controls, it’s probably safe, but hell,I didn’t know.

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          MudMan
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          Oh, wow, that’s almost 0.1% of their daily users. He’s probably quaking in his boots.

          I’m less confused about this happening than I am about how successfully Roblox has flown under the radar. People do not realize how big it is or how it works, and they seem not just happy to keep it that way, but actively concerned with maintaining that low profile.

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          • NightlightN Nightlight

            Okay, I have a child. Can someone please explain to me what why this is a concern. I really want to know

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            𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠
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            #7

            Roblox uses children as unpaid labour to produce content for their platform, as well as the risk your kid runs into nazis or pedophiles on the platform. That used to be rampant, not sure if they’ve managed to get a grip on that now.

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            • MudManM MudMan

              Oh, wow, that’s almost 0.1% of their daily users. He’s probably quaking in his boots.

              I’m less confused about this happening than I am about how successfully Roblox has flown under the radar. People do not realize how big it is or how it works, and they seem not just happy to keep it that way, but actively concerned with maintaining that low profile.

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              redstonevalley@sh.itjust.works
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              Petitions like these are made to raise awareness of the issue. That’s a win even if only a tiny fraction of their userbase are involved.

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                amzd@lemmy.world
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                Ngl if 100k people thought I was doing a bad job I’d quit yesterday

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                  fredselfish@lemmy.world
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                  What’s the chances the CEO is a pedophile?

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                  • NightlightN Nightlight

                    Okay, I have a child. Can someone please explain to me what why this is a concern. I really want to know

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                    dil
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                    dont let them on vrchat, i judge the fk out of every parent allowing kids on there

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                      Ech
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                      #12

                      Can we remove Roblox? Just…all of it?

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                        Melmi
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                        Let’s get MasterCard on the case

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                        • R redstonevalley@sh.itjust.works

                          Petitions like these are made to raise awareness of the issue. That’s a win even if only a tiny fraction of their userbase are involved.

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                          MudMan
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                          #14

                          No.

                          I mean, size matters. Tiny gestures that don’t do anything are useless by definition.

                          This petition isn’t even to regulate the platform or addressed to any regulatory body. As far as I can tell it’s just complaining about Roblox at Roblox.

                          Go after British regulators. Australian regulators. They sure seem willing to overreach under the guise of “will somebody think of the children”. Asking Roblox’s CEO to remove Roblox’s CEO sure seems like somebody would like the game to run the way they like but not for it to be removed or meaningfully changed to alter the real issues with it. It sounds like pointless whining to me, and I don’t even make any money out of this thing.

                          In the meantime, you are trying to convince a person to quit their extremely lucrative job by asking them nicely. Assuming the founder, CEO and single largest individual shareholder of the company needs to see, what? 10-20% of its userbase actually do something before he thinks he’s in trouble you only need to do get this a hundred to two hundred times larger for it to get noticed. More, if he’s stubborn. You may as well write a sternly written letter and flush it down the toilet.

                          If you want Roblox to change how it operates the people who can get that done are elected officials and regulators.

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                            Can we remove Roblox? Just…all of it?

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                            real_squids@sopuli.xyz
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                            Yeah, make kids play half-dead MMOs that will get shut down in two years, I went through that and turned out fine! /s

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                            • A amzd@lemmy.world

                              Ngl if 100k people thought I was doing a bad job I’d quit yesterday

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                              datavoid@lemmy.ml
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                              And that’s why you aren’t a billionaire

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                                dont let them on vrchat, i judge the fk out of every parent allowing kids on there

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                                slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org
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                                Back when vr was pretty new abd even more niche than now. I heard VR chat is vool so i tried it. Ho-ly shit, it was all small people with squeeky voices. Like at least 90%. People spend like 800 dollars for a headset to keep their kids busy with complete strangers

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                                • A amzd@lemmy.world

                                  Ngl if 100k people thought I was doing a bad job I’d quit yesterday

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                                  slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org
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                                  But 10 million think you do a banging job.

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                                  • MudManM MudMan

                                    No.

                                    I mean, size matters. Tiny gestures that don’t do anything are useless by definition.

                                    This petition isn’t even to regulate the platform or addressed to any regulatory body. As far as I can tell it’s just complaining about Roblox at Roblox.

                                    Go after British regulators. Australian regulators. They sure seem willing to overreach under the guise of “will somebody think of the children”. Asking Roblox’s CEO to remove Roblox’s CEO sure seems like somebody would like the game to run the way they like but not for it to be removed or meaningfully changed to alter the real issues with it. It sounds like pointless whining to me, and I don’t even make any money out of this thing.

                                    In the meantime, you are trying to convince a person to quit their extremely lucrative job by asking them nicely. Assuming the founder, CEO and single largest individual shareholder of the company needs to see, what? 10-20% of its userbase actually do something before he thinks he’s in trouble you only need to do get this a hundred to two hundred times larger for it to get noticed. More, if he’s stubborn. You may as well write a sternly written letter and flush it down the toilet.

                                    If you want Roblox to change how it operates the people who can get that done are elected officials and regulators.

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                                    ganryuu@lemmy.ca
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                                    #19

                                    What redstonevalley@sh.itjust.works was talking about was awareness, and you said no then proceeded to talk about something else entirely. It does raise awareness, as shown by the fact that we are talking about it.

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                                    • G ganryuu@lemmy.ca

                                      What redstonevalley@sh.itjust.works was talking about was awareness, and you said no then proceeded to talk about something else entirely. It does raise awareness, as shown by the fact that we are talking about it.

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                                      MudMan
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                                      There are 17 comments in this thread as of this writing, half of which are me ranting about it and a bunch of others being people unhelpfully telling a concerned parent to google what it’s about if they don’t know why Roblox is bad.

                                      As far as I can tell his has increased awareness by one person. That is much, much less than 0.01%.

                                      If you want awareness of the people that matter you want to get to the mianstream press, who have way more reach than Change.org, particularly with that demographic.

                                      Once again, this is very ineffectual on all stated goals. Whehter that’s by design or through incompetence I can’t tell.

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                                        lightfire228@pawb.social
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                                        The guy who started the petition said the petition is purely to get headlines and negative press about Roblox, to hopefully drive investors away from the platform

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                                        • NightlightN Nightlight

                                          Okay, I have a child. Can someone please explain to me what why this is a concern. I really want to know

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                                          lightfire228@pawb.social
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                                          Here’s a really good video from the guy who started the petition

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