Florida Issues Criminal Subpoenas To Roblox Over Child Safety (nbcnews.com) 40
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has issued criminal subpoenas to Roblox, calling it a "breeding ground for predators" and accusing the platform of profiting while failing to protect children. NBC News reports: The subpoenas will allow prosecutors to gather more information about the alleged criminal activity on the platform, including evidence related to suspected predators and victims, according to Uthmeier. The concerns prompted Roblox to invest heavily in protecting younger users on its platform by tightening messaging rules for children under 13, intensive content moderation and AI-powered monitoring.
In an emailed statement to Reuters, Roblox said it prohibits sharing images and videos in chat, uses filters designed to block the exchange of personal information, and is working to implement age estimation for all users accessing chat features. "While no system is perfect, our trained teams and automated tools continuously monitor communications to detect and remove harmful content," a Roblox spokesperson said.
In an emailed statement to Reuters, Roblox said it prohibits sharing images and videos in chat, uses filters designed to block the exchange of personal information, and is working to implement age estimation for all users accessing chat features. "While no system is perfect, our trained teams and automated tools continuously monitor communications to detect and remove harmful content," a Roblox spokesperson said.
Stranger danger isn't the problem (Score:2, Insightful)
Most commonly this is going to be priests or pastors. The reason why isn't terribly difficult to understand. You've got some people who already have a screw loose so they join the priesthood to be celibate and then they're stuck in compromising positions with children.
What I haven't quite figured out is why every single organized religion goes ou
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Yup, the sad truth is that if you really want to save children, you need to ban parents.
Parents aren't the problem (Score:1)
As a parent you are taught that you need to constantly watch out for random people on the internet.
You are then taught that the priests and preachers you leave your kid with are perfectly safe.
That's before we talk about other quacks and psychos like those Health guru types that use the same tricks religious people do just with weird fake medic
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> We have decades and decades of studies on this. Children are going to be assaulted and taken advantage of by people they know who are in positions of power.
"People they know" include people they make friends with online.
"Positions of power" include people who offer money (robux) in exchange for favors.
Yes, we should be putting a lot more priests and cops in prison for child abuse and exploitation, but Roblox is a MASSIVE playground for exploitation and fishing. This has been an open secret for years wi
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Look man, I know actually understanding things isn't your strong suit but white-knighting Roblox is not a good look.
Yes, religious organizations have been and still very much are a hotbed for child abuse and assault. I fully agree we should be doing a lot more to investigate and incarcerate offenders among the clergy and related professions.
But even if I accept it's "the primary vector of attack" - and these days I'm not entirely convinced that's true anymore - it does you no favors to handwave literal ten
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Are you sure about that? Why do you think it's true?
"This is also by the way why the right wing religious extremists oppose sex education. Sex ed teaches kids when they were being abused and religious extremists want to keep the abuse on the down low."
This isn't true. At all, in any direction. For exampl
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>"People they know" include people they make friends with online.
Are you paranoid or what?
>"Positions of power" include people who offer money (robux) in exchange for favors.
Oh yeah, this happens SO much!
>"Positions of power" include people who offer money (robux) in exchange for favors.
>or scared of getting caught yourself.
Oh, now with personal attacks included. I'm glad I didn't really read the rest of your rant after the initial to fails.
Re: Stranger danger isn't the problem (Score:2)
You may or may not be right, but people framing a narrative of âoeif you donâ(TM)t agree with me you are a pedo.â People canâ(TM)t really discuss a topic if they run a risk of being accused merely by not wanting to light the witch fire.
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On a related note, it sounds like Florida is doing nearly everything perfectly... except the massive sucking of Zionist dick.
Is that guy involved with the largest medicaid fraud ever still senator there?
Google says yes.... so I'd guess they are still doing a lot of other things wrong.
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What I haven't quite figured out is why every single organized religion goes out of their way to hide the pedophiles when they find them instead of just giving them over to the police.
You don't understand why religious organisations who hold themselves as the primary arbiter of what is sinful or moral doesn't flat out admit that the members of its group who are supposed to be spreaders of this virtue turn out to not uphold them?
I thought this conflict of interest was so visible that even Stevie Wonder could see it.
Oh, that one's easy. Let me explain: (Score:2)
What I haven't quite figured out is why every single organized religion goes out of their way to hide the pedophiles when they find them instead of just giving them over to the police. They all do it (except for the ones like the episcopals that don't care if their preachers are gay or married or gay married). But I don't get why.
That's easy. Revelation cults are - at best - evolutionary useful mind viruses that prevent people from becoming nihilistic or toxically hedonist and help position individuals in u
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We have decades and decades of studies on this. Children are going to be assaulted and taken advantage of by people they know who are in positions of power.
Most commonly this is going to be priests or pastors. The reason why isn't terribly difficult to understand. You've got some people who already have a screw loose so they join the priesthood to be celibate and then they're stuck in compromising positions with children.
What I haven't quite figured out is why every single organized religion goes out of their way to hide the pedophiles when they find them instead of just giving them over to the police. They all do it (except for the ones like the episcopals that don't care if their preachers are gay or married or gay married). But I don't get why.
But whatever the case going after Roblox isn't going to save any children. It is however going to be great for somebody's political career.
Floriduh has problems, house prices are dropping (and no-ones buying), inflation is going up, cost of living, thus far trying to blame it all on migrants, blacks, gays, women, muslims and jews hasn't magically fixed everything so now they're going after the old stalwart, video games to keep the real problems out of the headlines.
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Because plenty of kids have been abducted and abused by strangers. Just because most abusers are family members or close to the family doesn't mean that all abusers are.
Also, "adult they met on Roblox" counts as "people they know". Furthermore, given that kids are in fact kids, any adult is in a position of power over them.
Honestly, are you letting the da
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While this is true, the power isn't always obvious and actually the most common people to harm a child are family members. The second most common is people known to the family, not just the child - so yes priests or pastors are included, but aren't most common and this also includes friends of the family, coaches, babysitters, etc. People that the family trusts.
It's parents' job to protect their k
do they still have unregulated casinos? (Score:2)
do they still have unregulated casinos?
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As of July, yes.
https://www.wusf.org/text/poli... [wusf.org]
But it mostly seems to be a huge abundance of slot machines, not card games. And yes, they do not always pay out if you win on these so called machines. And no regulation means no control over the odds, so they could simply not even let you win.
It appears to continue because of really gullible people, not all of them being senior citizens. You have to be incredibly trusting to believe a business running an unlicensed slot machine has any chance of 'winning
It's funny (Score:2)
When Pam Bondi was Attorney General of Florida from 2011 - 2019, she never submitted a case against Jeffrey Epstein for his breeding ground of predators.
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Even funnier today when she's the Attorney General of the Trumpistan, she keeps trying to hide the Epstein files so much, that people around Ghislaine Maxwell are warned to keep their traps shut and disappear into supermax facilities if they disobey.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/art... [yahoo.com]
Really? (Score:3)
From the same state that is getting rid of child vaccinations requirements? https://www.bbc.com/news/artic... [bbc.com]
Is that something stupid and performative I hear? (Score:1)
The DeSantis admin strikes again.
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This is probably now wholly absurd. They *have* been sued in the past. I'd guess it was rather low frequency, but that's a guess.
OTOH, my real guess is that it's mainly a political talking point.
Wrong party (Score:2)
>"Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has issued criminal subpoenas to Roblox"
Wrong action. They should file criminal subpoenas to the parents or the parents agents that allow the children to have unrestricted, unsupervised access to the internet for child neglect, and/or child endangerment, and/or child abuse. The end.
You don't take your child to the library and leave them there every day, for many hours, without supervision, and then try to hold the city or the library or or the book manufacturer
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>"Roblox aren't a carrier. They're more like a sports league, or perhaps a daycare franchise."
OK, I will admit I didn't research "Roblox" much before commenting.
>"and expect them to be in one piece and not an anxiety riddled right wing christian jihadist by the time they get back to them"
Or an angry, frightened, gender-confused, victim of imaginary oppression seeking safe spaces, either (works both ways).
>"Please note, some parents absolutely do take their kid to a public library and leave them the
You're clearly not a parent + billionare or pedo? (Score:2)
Wrong action. They should file criminal subpoenas to the parents or the parents agents that allow the children to have unrestricted, unsupervised access to the internet for child neglect, and/or child endangerment, and/or child abuse. The end.
OK, spotted the guy who either has no kids or was absent while the wife did all the work. First of all, please kindly go fuck yourself with your judgmental bullshit. Parenting is fucking hard...mistakes get made. Should Roblox get sued?...no...can parents supervise every fucking minute of their kids life?...no, they can't. If you think they can, you're fucking stupid. If a parent says they can be on top of their kids online interactions, they're lying...probably to themselves. You can't shelter childr
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>"First of all, please kindly go fuck yourself with your judgmental bullshit."
Wow, nice posting language there. Perhaps you should calm down before posting? I think we actually agree on more than you think...
>"Parenting is fucking hard...mistakes get made."
100% agree. But handing over an unrestricted internet device to a child isn't a simple mistake nor a one-time mistake. It is a huge, continuous, major mistake.
>"Should Roblox get sued?...no.."
100% agree.
>"can parents supervise every fuckin
#freeschlep (Score:1)