As much as a fan I am of Ruben, calling people the Raped while trying to gather good PR with normies isn't the best choice.
Roblox is one of the biggest platforms on the internet. Moderating all the content would be extremely difficult. Any online sim like this is going to be full of that stuff. I agree Roblox is mostly a kids game and it shouldn't have it. But I remember second life and how bad that place was. It's the nature of "3D internet chat rooms" for lack of a better term. SL, VR Chat, Roblox all have the same problems and they're too big to moderate effectively. If you delete 1 vagina suit another 10 will be uploaded by the time you read the report.
They are legally required to moderate the content uploaded by users, especially if they actively earning money from it.
This is assuming it isn't moderated by a bunch of sexual deviants.
I agree with some of what you are saying, however, if I were the CSO at Roblox I'd set up a department of special moderations team that work with credible vigilante individuals and groups so we could keep track of deeply troubling individuals, networks, and trends. Of all the ways to go about it, what Roblox is doing now is simply the same tired pattern we've all seen before in schools and religious organizations. It's all so tiresome. Imagine if Facebook or Youtube decided they wouldn't allow anymore predator stings involving users. That'd be completely absurd and everybody knows it. Roblox claims they are not only a game but a global community of tens of millions. I say if a community's leaders cannot or will not hold themselves accountable then it is up to outsiders to hold them accountable. If they wanna keep this degree of influence over the lives of children then they ought to act like responsible adults. Anything less is unacceptable.
I agree they need to do a lot more, but vigilante groups and youtubers are not the people to be doing it. They need proper, well funded departments kept hidden working with police able to fast track trials and convictions. My disagreement is with the idea that groups like Perverted Justice are helping the situation rather than harming it. Instead of making youtube videos, go to the big media groups and put pressure on them through mainstream media. It worked on Habbo Hotel and it will work on Roblox.
Personally I think services like Roblox that are marketed to kids should be made mandatory reporters. If they cover for pedos, whoever does it should go straight to prison. Maybe then they'd knock it the fuck off.
They literally have people doing their work for them. They've gone well beyond incompetence and laziness into active malice and deliberately acting as accessories to the crimes.
They've fallen well below even the levels of moderation you see on sites like Facebook. Sure, bad things happen on Facebook too, but the platform isn't actively aiding and abetting the predators and suing the people trying to protect the community.
People looking at what is blatantly going on in public and documenting it is not "vigilante." You're buying into the predator rhetoric even by adopting that word.
Every company that allows underage users should be legally required to have a team that does nothing other than make it their business to protect the kids. And I agree with you, they SHOULD be mandatory reporters.
It's clear rhetoric to try and disuade people from even trying to go through the legal channels to address preadators. Frankly I'm convinced at this point roblox is operated by and for them given the lengths they go to guard pedophiles.
I see your point and I disagree. Vigilantes can be good or bad. In this case they're good.
I think you missed his point.
Yeah I know what happened. The media plucked a name out of thin air. Sulak panicked and muted everyone to try to show they were doing stuff. and their largest shareholder backed out. This was the beginning of the end. The downsizing led to server merging which was hard on the economy. Soon to try to make up for losses they introduced VIP club which is basically SUPER membership. It came with the ability to choose your monthly gift. Including the habbo club couch. Which is what backed the economy because before then only one person could get one unless through bought it. It essentially forced the place to become what’s called an ultra-libertarian-corporatocracy the only way to make money was to have a casino in game. Very interesting there’s yt documentaries about it.
They aren't vigilantes at all. They aren't taking the law into their own hands.
I agree with this, it can be good.
This is where I disagree: this isn't vigilantism. This is literally following the law, and reporting criminal activity.
Take Discord along with it too. That TeamSpeaker clone has groomed an entire generation into becoming deviants.
