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Roblox's New Child Safety Changes Reveal How Dangerous It's Been For Years
The new measures are welcome, but close to useless
Today’s news that Roblox is adding new child safety measures to the phenomenally popular game platform is certainly good to hear, but the nature of these scant changes reveals just how careless and callous the app has been for so many years, and how it continues to offer almost no protections for children. The new plans, sent in an email to parents of children with Roblox accounts, come weeks after an investigation by research investment company Hindenburg that called the platform, with ample evidence, “a pedophile hellscape for kids.” There are no checks whatsoever, no email or phone number required, no verification options—it just hands you an account for a 99-year-old, with full access to all aspects of the application, including all chat features.
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