The “something worse” is CEOs giving zero fucks about the harm they cause to society at large.

Roblox is permanently banned from this household and I suspect this will become a lot more common. We need to end the infinite smorgasboard model. That goes for all streaming services and Youtube as well. It's breaking this entire generation of children and history will 100% look back on it as just as bad as drugs and alcohol, if not worse.

The very idea of a user-generated content free-to-play MMO for children with whack-a-mole moderation is totally bananas. Even *good* whack-a-mole moderation would be a bananas design. I'm okay with little kids online gaming, but it needs to be in content that has been approved by a responsible adult in a setting where either adults are actively supervising or the children are on a server where we know everybody who's in there.

And a culture with a a very accepting view of pedophilia.

Yeah, capitalism.

like fucking *neopets* has existed for SCORES longer than roblox and i’ve yet to see a massive neopets-pedophile scandal. much less one that the company seems to publically ignore as much as is legally possible. clearly it’s something you CAN prevent!

> Since 2018, at least two dozen people in the United States have been arrested and accused of abducting or abusing victims they met on Roblox These are only the ones who got *caught*, by the way. And only in the US. What an absolute shitshow.

I haven't played neopets, is there something about its design that would make the situation better than roblox?

You mean the 40 people out of 131,000,000 who had parents that let them be unsupervised on Roblox? Really, that sounds like Roblox has very little problems.

LMAO! Ffs….. like video games wouldn’t exist under any other system of government. Granted China banned it- but only because of china’s need to control its citizens via unreasonable censorship laws. Not surprisingly, Cuba also has banned it for the same reason. So in fairness, there’s two communist shitholes that don’t allow it. Maybe that’s your argument all along?

Is it really accurate to call Roblox a video game? Seems more like a pedophile hangout den to me. What’s more reasonable? The country that banned the pedophile hangout den or the one that encourages it to flourish? Seems obvious to me which country is the real shithole. Taking the side of pedophiles seems like an odd stance on your part, but go off king.

Fucking hilarious! Thanks for that. It’s been a rough night.

Why wouldn't video games exist under anything but capitalism? Communists still had movies? And also the USSR produced one of the most famous, well recieved and respected games that is still around today.

This could potentially be done with an identity system that allows a company to verify the age a user while not knowing anything else. Although I trust pretty much nobody to do it while respecting privacy and security.

lol! Never change lemmy.

Less interaction, probably. It's been >20 years since I even went to the site, so my take is probably old and useless, just like me. The only interactions between people were the 'fights' where you might have seen their name for less than two minutes. There was a forum where you might have talked with people, and a 'newspaper' where people could submit stories. I think that's actually where I found my fondness for fanfiction. There are always a few gems hidden in the galaxy of rotted milk that exists in the written word.

I notice you have no actual refute, interesting

I’m not here to argue, therefore- there’s no need to refute. I don’t see conversation as sport. I am not arguing, the tire I need not “refute”. I added my opinion into what I assumed was a public discussion. I make no apologies that you dislike or disagree with it.

You don't have to apologize for having silly brain. It's not your fault.