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Russian media finally admits Putin is under fire from angry citizens, but it's for the recent Roblox ban — Kremlin says kids have written 63,000 complaint letters, half said they wanted to leave Russi (www.tomshardware.com)

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There's been a Russian youth uprising, with tens of thousands of kids writing to say they want to emigrate because Roblox has been blocked.

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[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, Roblox is banned, but its not for tje reason Putin says. I'm positive that adults in Russia were using it to communicate outside the government sanctioned channels. If predators can use it to find and groom kids, I'm sure revolutionaries could form communications networks in there.

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Official statement: systematic distribution on the resource of materials containing propaganda and justification of extremist and terrorist activities, calls for violent actions, as well as information related to LGBT topics.

There is a hint that maybe since Russia has no access to Roblox chats, they blocked it to avoid resistance communicating there. But how much is this true? Not all VPNs are banned in Russia yet. There are ways to communicate in private chats there. I bet Roblox wouldn't be number 1 pick in communications.

Honestly, with how Roblox been treating pedophilia issue on their platform, I kind of can see why they banned it. The most "making sense" ban so far.