Over half of those parents voted for a rapist in the white house. You sure about their decision making abilities there?
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Parents need to fucking parent.
Well that's been my policy so far. Since there are literally no controls whatsoever over the content in Roblox, it looks like my kid will be old enough to play Halo before he's old enough to play Roblox.
I have no problem with this, there are a lot of games out there.
There's a whole lot of games kids should never been able to play. Roblox enables more predators than Omegle.
I dunno... That seems a like disingenuous to make a game specifically for kids and then take no responsibility for what children are exposed to on said game. I'm all for parents taking responsibility and believe that's a problem with many families today, but that just seems a shitty thing for him to say, IMHO.
He's washing himself of the responsibility for how harmful the game is.
Neo lib western ideals have toxic "personal responsibility" as a virtue.
Everything is your own fault, there are no external influences, pull yourself up by your bootstraps....
OH WAIT! Did my friends multi billion dollar company make many stupid decisions that will cost potentially everything? Better bail them out with the the publics money and tell everyone to not buy fancy things, like a TV or fridge, if they want to get survive.
I disagree I think this is the only answer. It’s the answer law makers should take as well. If parents did their job just because something is made specifically for kids doesn’t mean they are getting on it. There were a ton of things I wasn’t allowed to do as a kid.
It's the children's parents' fault they keep falling into the pit. The government should take no responsibility as child after child disappears, never to be seen again. We could fill the hole, but that's parents job and there's an acceptable amount of poor people's children I'm willing to let vanish. It's only impacting poor people's children.
As someone who grew up poor with neglectful parents, it's people like you who would cheer on my death. People would say it would destroy my fathers incentive to provide for me if they helped me. Let me tell you, there's some people who just won't provide for their children. It's supply side Jesus applied exclusively to struggling children.
It is the parents fault, but children will suffer if we do nothing. Parents should tech kids not to get into strangers cars, but when they inevitably do we should still look for them.
How many poor kids is an acceptable sacrifice to you?
Maybe we should take down the orphan crushing machine even if it's not our job.
Honestly the answer is to punish bad parents. Not all of society and reasonable families. There is no orphan crushing machine, it’s people who shouldn’t be parents not being educated in why they shouldn’t. And abortion being turned into something political instead of the best choice for 99% of pregnant persons.
This is a a business operating to target children to deliver them content they know is inappropriate for them.
This behaviour is predatory. It shouldn’t be tolerated against children. The content is promoted for children, so it’s reasonable for a parent to assume the content is appropriate for them.
Literally this shit applies to everything targeted to kids. It’s why advertising to them should be not allowed. That’s never going to happen though.
In the end it’s the parents responsibility to raise kids with a mediocre amount of media literacy to know what is and isn’t predatory.
Although I've heard of the game, I'm unfamiliar with it.
Can you elaborate on what exactly is inappropriate ?
Also, is it something some parents evaluated and are OK with their children being exposed to?
Example: my parents were ok with me watching R rated movies with them when I was like ten...
Roblox isn't so much "a game" but a collection of thousands of player created games (or "experiences" as the company calls them). You can find a bit of everything, from obstacle courses to first person shooters to casinos.
Since Roblox is so heavily targeted at children, it's very easy to find pedophiles or other people with ill intent. Moderation doesn't exist, afaik
I agree with you except for the fact that there's just so much bullshit for kids out there, and parents are so exhausted right now (both are working and working longer). So it'd be nice if there was a system that actually looked out for children and people instead of businesses.
At the end of the day, though, it is still the parents' responsibility. It just sucks that this person can wipe their hands of things and think that sufficient.
So it’d be nice if there was a system that actually looked out for children
Here's the rub. Who's version? Would your universal system protect just against gambling type things? How about sex stuff? Just porn or more? How much more? Should the system block anything related to questions or statements about homosexuality?
How about things that might be against a particular faith?
There's no one set of rules that all parents can agree on as to what their children should or shouldn't have access to. Until then, how can one system do what you're asking?
Exactly!
My parents were fine with me watching most R rated movies at ten...
A LARGE group of religious nut jobs wanted the Harry Potter movies banned... And a non-insignificant group that wanted the Teletubbies banned...
"Drug trafficker tells families of people addicted to his product not to let their loved ones take drugs."
Yes, because prohibition worked soooo great.
As much as I hate it, parents need to.... actually fucking parent. It's so damn bad these days parents expect schools to raise their kids.
The gov isn't there to raise your kids and it's not supposed to be there to hold your damn hand because you make shit choices.
Gambling issue? Get help...no one says let's ban gambling.
Alcoholic? Get help. Prohibition didn't work. We can see how well that's working for the war on drugs.
Take some personal responsibility. Not everything that's a vice needs to be banned or regulated into the ground because some people lack willpower.
I agree with everything you say, pal. I wasn't making fun of the fact that parents are being held accountable, I was making fun of the fact that the one who is holding parents accountable is the head of the platform that is harmful to children. I guess I didn't make myself clear enough and I'm sorry for that.
I get ya, but it still seems like we're trying to blame the guy providing the service in this instance. Which is again, giving people a pass to not have willpower or be parents.
We can definitely do both: blame the guy for not providing a healthy environment for his primary users, and blame the parents for not being aware of the dangers their children are exposed to.
Nah that person was unnecessarily defensive. You made yourself clear!
Sure. Seems fair. But they could also stop the pedophiles on their platform too.
Why? Better solve the problem by saying to parents to now let kids play roblox, this way you (CEO) don't have to deal with pedo problems
Obviously no one got it soooo /s ? Lmao
And Roblox goes bankrupt.
Seems obvious