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.
Have parents tried parenting their kids instead of expecting everyone else to do it for them?
You’re setting up a false dichotomy, don’t you think?
Never let your kids play age-appropriate online games, which Roblox ostensibly falls under – risk forming lifelong resentment as kids forfeit social capital upon exclusion from peers
Let the kids play, but insert yourself into every facet of that experience for the entire time – first of all, who has time for that? This course also risks heavy resentment and embarrassment
Am I missing another option? As far as I know, the parents all vetted the game and all thought they were being reasonable about exposure, but the kids were still harmed.
My son doesn’t play roblox, isn’t allowed to play roblox, and doesn’t want to play roblox. I got weird vibes from it when he was small and I looked into, and just didn’t let him. He played Mario and stuff like that, usually as a family.
A decade later, My son has friends. He has at 12, no resentment for not playing roblox, bro dog doesn’t even want a phone that badly yet. Its, cool and I’m probably lucky.
Why do kids have to play roblox to socialize? Why will there be resentment? He resented the neighborhood boy the day he asked him to come over and play outside with him, and the boy said he’d rather play on his computer. My son was upset with the friend, not me. He always preferrs real life play to games online. He wasn’t mad at me for it, he was sad his friend would rather sit alone in his house (parents weren’t home) than come play in our yard.
I think this sums it up. Regardless of your opinion as a parent you have to trust and respect your children. This is multipled by how many “other kids” get to do a thing.
You can’t lock them away. Unfortunately this has become the current generations social platform and entertainment. If you don’t have it, you’re a weird kid.
There is this razor edge of control and freedom you have to dance as a parent all the time, not just with Roblox.
As someone without kid, this is too easy of a defense. And if you truly think about it for more than 5 minutes, or watch any documentary on how pedophiles operate, you’d realize.
That would require them to actually think at all, it makes much more sense to expect the parent to monitor the child’s activity constantly and never let them do anything on the Internet unsupervised. They will also then complain years later about helicopter parents not giving them any freedom
I have a kid who thinks roblox… I’m sorry, who knows roblox is slop because I taught him about it and he’s seen poor behavior from friends from playing it.
It should be a combo of both individual patenting and regulations. Ideally
This requires a technological literacy level we cannot assume everybody has, tho. And the issue is that those pedo fucks are as smart as they are evil. They share books on how to groom and abuse kids. It’s is fucking wild.