Petition to remove Roblox CEO reaches 100k signatures amid child safety concerns

What do they think you're going to inevitably cave on next, letting the kids ride around without seat belts? Jfc just tell the kid no.

Let's get MasterCard on the case

Give them a call and ask them why they support child abuse.

Oh, wow, that's almost 0.1% of their daily users. He's probably quaking in his boots.

I'm less confused about this happening than I am about how successfully Roblox has flown under the radar. People do not realize how big it is or how it works, and they seem not just happy to keep it that way, but actively concerned with maintaining that low profile.

Petitions like these are made to raise awareness of the issue. That's a win even if only a tiny fraction of their userbase are involved.
- No.
  I mean, size matters. Tiny gestures that don't do anything are useless by definition.
  This petition isn't even to regulate the platform or addressed to any regulatory body. As far as I can tell it's just complaining about Roblox at Roblox.
  Go after British regulators. Australian regulators. They sure seem willing to overreach under the guise of "will somebody think of the children". Asking Roblox's CEO to remove Roblox's CEO sure seems like somebody would like the game to run the way they like but not for it to be removed or meaningfully changed to alter the real issues with it. It sounds like pointless whining to me, and I don't even make any money out of this thing.
  In the meantime, you are trying to convince a person to quit their extremely lucrative job by asking them nicely. Assuming the founder, CEO and single largest individual shareholder of the company needs to see, what? 10-20% of its userbase actually do something before he thinks he's in trouble you only need to do get this a hundred to two hundred times larger for it to get noticed. More, if he's stubborn. You may as well write a sternly written letter and flush it down the toilet.
  If you want Roblox to change how it operates the people who can get that done are elected officials and regulators.
quaking in the boots have me dying 😂

Can we remove Roblox? Just...all of it?

Yeah, make kids play half-dead MMOs that will get shut down in two years, I went through that and turned out fine! /s

Okay, I have a child. Can someone please explain to me what why this is a concern. I really want to know

Roblox uses children as unpaid labour to produce content for their platform, as well as the risk your kid runs into nazis or pedophiles on the platform. That used to be rampant, not sure if they've managed to get a grip on that now.
- I dont mean to be rude here, but this isnt much different than when a lot of us here on lemmy hung out on 4chan.
TLDR, Roblox is effectively a heavily monetized game development and social media platform aimed at and run by children.
Effectively a huge treadmill of NFTs for underage users where they're encouraged to make, buy and sell content to each other. And because millions of them log in every day also a remarkable honey pot for people wanting to interact with that audience as a bonus.
Most evidence out there is that Roblox management either actively generates this situation or is very much okay with it.
So basically if you don't want your kids on social media unsupervised (or working for a billionaire for free) this is probably not the right place for them to be.
And granted, those are genuine "ifs". You may not have a problem with them being in those sorts of online spaces, and learning game development via Roblox isn't necessarily a bad thing. The lack of mainstream awareness about what's actually in there may be the more genuinely disturbing thing about Roblox in the first place.
Here's a really good video from the guy who started the petition
dont let them on vrchat, i judge the fk out of every parent allowing kids on there
- Back when vr was pretty new abd even more niche than now. I heard VR chat is vool so i tried it. Ho-ly shit, it was all small people with squeeky voices. Like at least 90%. People spend like 800 dollars for a headset to keep their kids busy with complete strangers
If it's really pressing, you can Google it. There are many articles detailing the predatory business practices against children by Roblox.
Found this. https://m.imdb.com/es/news/ni65429148/
If you enable parent controls, it's probably safe, but hell,I didn't know.

i hope the new ROBLOX CEO can do better then this

Ngl if 100k people thought I was doing a bad job I’d quit yesterday

And that's why you aren't a billionaire
- That's one of the reasons.
But 10 million think you do a banging job.
- 10 million would be nice.
  Try 100 million.
  Roblox is a LOT bigger than people think.
  The smallest game in Roblox's top 10 as I write this would be on Steam's top 10 by concurrent users. That's above GTA V. The number one game on Roblox would be number 1 on Steam, ahead of CounterStrike 2 by a factor of 2.
  I mean a LOT bigger.