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Financial newsletter accuses Roblox of enabling child abuse


A Roblox spokesperson called the allegations misleading.

Porterfield told The Verge that Roblox continuously updates its safety practices to “catch and prevent malicious activity” on the platform, including by blocking inappropriate words and phrases in chat and not allowing image-to-image sharing. Roblox has been involved in lobbying to shape the Kids Online Safety Act, and its CEO, David Baszucki, traveled to Capitol Hill earlier this year to meet with legislators. “One of the things specifically with KOSA is that we want to make sure that when young people are learning to create and sharing their creations, for example, that doesn’t get turned off,” Baszucki said in an April interview with Command Line ’s Alex Heath.

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