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Roblox announces new safety features for under-13s

The gaming platform has previously been criticised for allowing young users to be exposed to harmful content.

It specifies hangout experiences as games where "the primary theme or purpose" is to allow people to communicate with each other as themselves, rather than role-playing as a character. It is thought that this is aimed at preventing users writing or drawing offensive images or messages which are difficult to moderate. At the time, Ofcom, the regulator for online safety, told tech firms to hide "toxic" content from children and published draft codes of practice.

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