Roblox Loses 12M Daily Users After Age ID Check Rollout

This is strong evidence they are doing child safety wrong.

My kids want to play roblox, but we all know their primary customers are pedophiles and influencers.

Actual parental controls would mean I’d let kids use this service (and so would my friends). Instead, age verification partitions the user base creating a special space just for child abusers + targets.

According to California’s mandatory child protection training, the first step a successful pedophile will take is identifying a trusted, but not actually monitored environment full of kids.

Age verification laws force platform providers to create such environments online. This shouldn’t be surprising because they were strongly backed by people that directly profit from privacy violations and online abuse (like zuck).

These age verification laws should be repealed.

Having chat in these games is the main issue and opened a can of worms years ago.

I have to wonder how many of the kids knew they were being groomed and just liked having the pseudo-parental attention and will now be sad that their groomer is gone and will turn to AI to fill that void.