I see it as my responsibility to make sure my kids aren’t getting into trouble.
Great. Now what about kids with shitty parents who find comfort in hanging out with their friends from school in Roblox where they can play digital Legos? You know, the kind of children who don’t have responsible adults in their lives and are the primary targets of online predators?
Yes, it’s parents’ responsibility to protect their kids. But we don’t live in a world where only good parents exist and there are no bad parents. You can’t just say “Fuck 'em they should have chosen better parents,” and shift liability away from the company who knows it has a problem.
Kids having shitty parents is not Roblox responsibility or something they can protect kids from. It’s not shifting liability, it’s a problem in all social activities. Before the internet, Father Dale Fushek was molesting kids at Young Life and those same shitty parents and cops turned a blind eye to a “pillar of the community” until 2005. That piece of shit is still free to this day and only faced civil lawsuits while the church moves him around.
Roblox can help with chat filters and complaints, that’s it. Your kid has a better chance of being molested in the real world by someone they already know or trust. Blaming Roblox is a distraction. BBN, AIM, Craigslist, Discord… I’m old enough to see people blame whatever’s popular at the time.
Great. Now what about kids with shitty parents who find comfort in hanging out with their friends from school in Roblox where they can play digital Legos? You know, the kind of children who don’t have responsible adults in their lives and are the primary targets of online predators?
Yes, it’s parents’ responsibility to protect their kids. But we don’t live in a world where only good parents exist and there are no bad parents. You can’t just say “Fuck 'em they should have chosen better parents,” and shift liability away from the company who knows it has a problem.
Kids having shitty parents is not Roblox responsibility or something they can protect kids from. It’s not shifting liability, it’s a problem in all social activities. Before the internet, Father Dale Fushek was molesting kids at Young Life and those same shitty parents and cops turned a blind eye to a “pillar of the community” until 2005. That piece of shit is still free to this day and only faced civil lawsuits while the church moves him around.
Roblox can help with chat filters and complaints, that’s it. Your kid has a better chance of being molested in the real world by someone they already know or trust. Blaming Roblox is a distraction. BBN, AIM, Craigslist, Discord… I’m old enough to see people blame whatever’s popular at the time.
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