“My first message would be, if you’re not comfortable, don’t let your kids be on Roblox. That sounds a little counter-intuitive, but I would always trust parents to make their own decisions,” the company’s director noted.
I dunno… That seems a like disingenuous to make a game specifically for kids and then take no responsibility for what children are exposed to on said game. I’m all for parents taking responsibility and believe that’s a problem with many families today, but that just seems a shitty thing for him to say, IMHO.
Neo lib western ideals have toxic “personal responsibility” as a virtue.
Everything is your own fault, there are no external influences, pull yourself up by your bootstraps…
OH WAIT! Did my friends multi billion dollar company make many stupid decisions that will cost potentially everything? Better bail them out with the the publics money and tell everyone to not buy fancy things, like a TV or fridge, if they want to get survive.
I disagree I think this is the only answer. It’s the answer law makers should take as well. If parents did their job just because something is made specifically for kids doesn’t mean they are getting on it. There were a ton of things I wasn’t allowed to do as a kid.
This is a a business operating to target children to deliver them content they know is inappropriate for them.
This behaviour is predatory. It shouldn’t be tolerated against children. The content is promoted for children, so it’s reasonable for a parent to assume the content is appropriate for them.
Literally this shit applies to everything targeted to kids. It’s why advertising to them should be not allowed. That’s never going to happen though.
In the end it’s the parents responsibility to raise kids with a mediocre amount of media literacy to know what is and isn’t predatory.
Although I’ve heard of the game, I’m unfamiliar with it.
Can you elaborate on what exactly is inappropriate ?
Also, is it something some parents evaluated and are OK with their children being exposed to?
Example: my parents were ok with me watching R rated movies with them when I was like ten…
It’s the children’s parents’ fault they keep falling into the pit. The government should take no responsibility as child after child disappears, never to be seen again. We could fill the hole, but that’s parents job and there’s an acceptable amount of poor people’s children I’m willing to let vanish. It’s only impacting poor people’s children.
As someone who grew up poor with neglectful parents, it’s people like you who would cheer on my death. People would say it would destroy my fathers incentive to provide for me if they helped me. Let me tell you, there’s some people who just won’t provide for their children. It’s supply side Jesus applied exclusively to struggling children.
It is the parents fault, but children will suffer if we do nothing. Parents should tech kids not to get into strangers cars, but when they inevitably do we should still look for them.
How many poor kids is an acceptable sacrifice to you?
Maybe we should take down the orphan crushing machine even if it’s not our job.
Honestly the answer is to punish bad parents. Not all of society and reasonable families. There is no orphan crushing machine, it’s people who shouldn’t be parents not being educated in why they shouldn’t. And abortion being turned into something political instead of the best choice for 99% of pregnant persons.
I agree with you except for the fact that there’s just so much bullshit for kids out there, and parents are so exhausted right now (both are working and working longer). So it’d be nice if there was a system that actually looked out for children and people instead of businesses.
At the end of the day, though, it is still the parents’ responsibility. It just sucks that this person can wipe their hands of things and think that sufficient.
So it’d be nice if there was a system that actually looked out for children
Here’s the rub. Who’s version? Would your universal system protect just against gambling type things? How about sex stuff? Just porn or more? How much more? Should the system block anything related to questions or statements about homosexuality?
How about things that might be against a particular faith?
There’s no one set of rules that all parents can agree on as to what their children should or shouldn’t have access to. Until then, how can one system do what you’re asking?
Yes, and lawmakers should also do away with all safety regulations! Workers can simply quit jobs that they feel are unsafe!
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Parents need to fucking parent.
Well that’s been my policy so far. Since there are literally no controls whatsoever over the content in Roblox, it looks like my kid will be old enough to play Halo before he’s old enough to play Roblox.
I have no problem with this, there are a lot of games out there.
If I had kids now, I wouldn’t let them touch Roblox. My ex had a kid that he didn’t pay enough attention to. That was constantly falling in with online predators in Roblox and Discord. I reported a predator on discord and they made me go through and flag every picture the kid sent, not the whole conversation. wtf Discord. Keeping predators away on Roblox was harder.
Over half of those parents voted for a rapist in the white house. You sure about their decision making abilities there?
