This is strong evidence they are doing child safety wrong.
My kids want to play roblox, but we all know their primary customers are pedophiles and influencers.
Actual parental controls would mean I’d let kids use this service (and so would my friends). Instead, age verification partitions the user base creating a special space just for child abusers + targets.
According to California’s mandatory child protection training, the first step a successful pedophile will take is identifying a trusted, but not actually monitored environment full of kids.
Age verification laws force platform providers to create such environments online. This shouldn’t be surprising because they were strongly backed by people that directly profit from privacy violations and online abuse (like zuck).
I have to wonder how many of the kids knew they were being groomed and just liked having the pseudo-parental attention and will now be sad that their groomer is gone and will turn to AI to fill that void.
That's a great question. I honestly do not know nor do I know if they would share such granular details. I suppose we would have to wait for a hacktivist to share such information.
It sounds like (from the earnings report) they now have four classes of users:
- Identity verified adults
- Identity verified kids
- Anonymous adults
- Anonymous kids
The last three groups are in a “degraded” mode, I think.
I imagine a large fraction of groomers do not want to tie their activities to real world identities, so they’re mostly group 3.
A different reading is that, if a groomer can trick the face scan into “under 13” mode (putting them in group 2), then the game opens up chat for them, but just with kids.
I’m not sure which it is. I’d happily pay $50 one time for a copy of the game that includes parental controls and does not include anonymous contact with random strangers (including sketchy content creators), but they don’t offer this as a product.
This is strong evidence they are doing child safety wrong.
My kids want to play roblox, but we all know their primary customers are pedophiles and influencers.
Actual parental controls would mean I’d let kids use this service (and so would my friends). Instead, age verification partitions the user base creating a special space just for child abusers + targets.
According to California’s mandatory child protection training, the first step a successful pedophile will take is identifying a trusted, but not actually monitored environment full of kids.
Age verification laws force platform providers to create such environments online. This shouldn’t be surprising because they were strongly backed by people that directly profit from privacy violations and online abuse (like zuck).
These age verification laws should be repealed.
Having chat in these games is the main issue and opened a can of worms years ago.
I have to wonder how many of the kids knew they were being groomed and just liked having the pseudo-parental attention and will now be sad that their groomer is gone and will turn to AI to fill that void.
I'm confused, is the age verification to keep young people out or the groomers out?
Who'd use Roblox legitimately if not for the underage? Its pretty terrible.
That's a great question. I honestly do not know nor do I know if they would share such granular details. I suppose we would have to wait for a hacktivist to share such information.
It sounds like (from the earnings report) they now have four classes of users:
- Identity verified adults
- Identity verified kids
- Anonymous adults
- Anonymous kids
The last three groups are in a “degraded” mode, I think.
I imagine a large fraction of groomers do not want to tie their activities to real world identities, so they’re mostly group 3.
A different reading is that, if a groomer can trick the face scan into “under 13” mode (putting them in group 2), then the game opens up chat for them, but just with kids.
I’m not sure which it is. I’d happily pay $50 one time for a copy of the game that includes parental controls and does not include anonymous contact with random strangers (including sketchy content creators), but they don’t offer this as a product.
The same groomers are running the AI stuff.