Florida Issues Criminal Subpoenas To Roblox Over Child Safety (nbcnews.com)
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- News link: https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/10/20/219228/florida-issues-criminal-subpoenas-to-roblox-over-child-safety
- Source link: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/florida-attorney-general-issues-subpoenas-roblox-child-safety-rcna238711
> The subpoenas will allow prosecutors to gather more information about the [2]alleged criminal activity on the platform, including evidence related to suspected predators and victims, according to Uthmeier. The concerns prompted Roblox to invest heavily in protecting younger users on its platform by tightening messaging rules for children under 13, intensive content moderation and AI-powered monitoring.
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> In an emailed statement to Reuters, Roblox said it prohibits sharing images and videos in chat, uses filters designed to block the exchange of personal information, and is working to implement age estimation for all users accessing chat features. "While no system is perfect, our trained teams and automated tools continuously monitor communications to detect and remove harmful content," a Roblox spokesperson said.
[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/florida-attorney-general-issues-subpoenas-roblox-child-safety-rcna238711
[2] https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/04/14/2259206/risks-to-children-playing-roblox-deeply-disturbing-say-researchers
do they still have unregulated casinos? (Score:2)
do they still have unregulated casinos?
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As of July, yes.
[1]https://www.wusf.org/text/poli... [wusf.org]
But it mostly seems to be a huge abundance of slot machines, not card games. And yes, they do not always pay out if you win on these so called machines. And no regulation means no control over the odds, so they could simply not even let you win.
It appears to continue because of really gullible people, not all of them being senior citizens. You have to be incredibly trusting to believe a business running an unlicensed slot machine has any chance of 'winning
[1] https://www.wusf.org/text/politics-issues/2025-07-12/bright-lights-no-rules-florida-illegal-gambling-dens-hiding-plain-sight
It's funny (Score:2)
When Pam Bondi was Attorney General of Florida from 2011 - 2019, she never submitted a case against Jeffrey Epstein for his breeding ground of predators.
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Even funnier today when she's the Attorney General of the Trumpistan, she keeps trying to hide the Epstein files so much, that people around Ghislaine Maxwell are warned to keep their traps shut and disappear into supermax facilities if they disobey.
[1]https://www.yahoo.com/news/art... [yahoo.com]
[1] https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/prison-helping-massive-ghislaine-maxwell-020839426.html
Really? (Score:2)
From the same state that is getting rid of child vaccinations requirements? [1]https://www.bbc.com/news/artic... [bbc.com]
[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg0e485wwwo.amp
Is that something stupid and performative I hear? (Score:2)
The DeSantis admin strikes again.
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This is probably now wholly absurd. They *have* been sued in the past. I'd guess it was rather low frequency, but that's a guess.
OTOH, my real guess is that it's mainly a political talking point.
Wrong party (Score:2)
> "Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has issued criminal subpoenas to Roblox"
Wrong action. They should file criminal subpoenas to the parents or the parents agents that allow the children to have unrestricted, unsupervised access to the internet for child neglect, and/or child endangerment, and/or child abuse. The end.
You don't take your child to the library and leave them there every day, for many hours, without supervision, and then try to hold the city or the library or or the book manufacturer
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> "Roblox aren't a carrier. They're more like a sports league, or perhaps a daycare franchise."
OK, I will admit I didn't research "Roblox" much before commenting.
> "and expect them to be in one piece and not an anxiety riddled right wing christian jihadist by the time they get back to them"
Or an angry, frightened, gender-confused, victim of imaginary oppression seeking safe spaces, either (works both ways).
> "Please note, some parents absolutely do take their kid to a public library and leave them the
Stranger danger isn't the problem (Score:5, Insightful)
We have decades and decades of studies on this. Children are going to be assaulted and taken advantage of by people they know who are in positions of power.
Most commonly this is going to be priests or pastors. The reason why isn't terribly difficult to understand. You've got some people who already have a screw loose so they join the priesthood to be celibate and then they're stuck in compromising positions with children.
What I haven't quite figured out is why every single organized religion goes out of their way to hide the pedophiles when they find them instead of just giving them over to the police. They all do it (except for the ones like the episcopals that don't care if their preachers are gay or married or gay married). But I don't get why.
But whatever the case going after Roblox isn't going to save any children. It is however going to be great for somebody's political career.
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Yup, the sad truth is that if you really want to save children, you need to ban parents.
Parents aren't the problem (Score:2)
The problem is no one is telling parents about the actual danger. If anything people go out of their way to tell parents there is no danger lying to them.
As a parent you are taught that you need to constantly watch out for random people on the internet.
You are then taught that the priests and preachers you leave your kid with are perfectly safe.
That's before we talk about other quacks and psychos like those Health guru types that use the same tricks religious people do just with weird fake medic
Re:Stranger danger isn't the problem (Score:4)
> We have decades and decades of studies on this. Children are going to be assaulted and taken advantage of by people they know who are in positions of power.
"People they know" include people they make friends with online.
"Positions of power" include people who offer money (robux) in exchange for favors.
Yes, we should be putting a lot more priests and cops in prison for child abuse and exploitation, but Roblox is a MASSIVE playground for exploitation and fishing. This has been an open secret for years with a fairly recent media fiasco involving [1]Schlep [wikipedia.org]. Apparently Roblox was more interested in banning him and any mention of him on their platform for the high crime of reporting predators to the authorities than they are about actually punishing those predators at all.
> But whatever the case going after Roblox isn't going to save any children.
You are either fucked in the head if you believe this, or scared of getting caught yourself.
=Smidge=
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roblox%E2%80%93Schlep_controversy
So no it doesn't (Score:3, Informative)
Sorry I guess I wasn't clear enough but no random online people they meet online aren't included in the heading people they know.
People they know means people with much closer social ties. Basically it's people who are in a trusted position of power.
This is not to say that you still don't need to worry about it but it's very unlikely your kid is going to meet somebody randomly online and get taken advantage of there.
It is infinitely more likely that a priest or a counselor or a medical quack is
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> On a related note, it sounds like Florida is doing nearly everything perfectly... except the massive sucking of Zionist dick.
Is that guy involved with the largest medicaid fraud ever still senator there?
Google says yes.... so I'd guess they are still doing a lot of other things wrong.