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[Draugoth]

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Famous Roblox vigilante "Schlep" has been banned from Roblox after extensive work on predatory users and predatory games within Roblox. This has caused a worldwide controversy highlighting child abuse concerns with some countries straight up banning Roblox, while other countries such as the US filing multiple lawsuits.

Chris Hansen was famous for his work on dateline's "To Catch a Predator". It looks like he has reached out to Schlep and may be involved in a documentary going into Roblox's safety issues.

 

[spookyfish]

Streisand always wins.

 

[adamsapple]

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Good.

 

[AJUMP23]

Roblox CEOs are going to have to sit on a stool.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Roblox CEOs are going to have to sit on a stool.

Hopefully they don't have pants on, and it's upside down.

 

[IFireflyl]

Still waiting for the plot twist where we find out that Chris Hansen was the predator the whole time.

 

[Kacho]

This will be good. Glad Hansen is stepping up.

 

[TonberrysKnife]

Good for him. Glad to see someone is stepping up to this shit.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Who?

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

anyone who has praised roblox is a moron. not only because the pedo shit, the entire platform is garbage

 

[Solarstrike]

 

[Banjo64]

Takedown on YouTube is great. TCAP continued.

 

[Gaiff]

To Catch a Predator was one of the funniest shows of the mid-2000s.

I'll never forget the guy who knew he was being lured into a trap, but couldn't resist his urges. When he saw Chris Hansen pull up, he said he knew it was a sting and he just wanted to test it. He took off and promptly got arrested.

 

[YeulEmeralda]

Maybe Roblox can become a church then nobody would care.

 

[Nydius]

This should be fun to watch unfold. Hansen won't be intimidated by cease-and-desist letters.

Maybe Roblox can become a church then nobody would care.

Hey now, don't give their CEO ideas. Especially since this would also let them be tax exempt in the US.

 

[Rran]

Maybe Roblox can become a teacher then nobody would care.

FTFY

Still waiting for the plot twist where we find out that Chris Hansen was the predator the whole time.

It's one of those things you kind of expect to happen but he's no pedo. He did get caught cheating on his wife though:

 

[ResurrectedContrarian]

 

[Loomy]

Good. Fuck Roblox and fuck David Baszucki.

 

[Scrawnton]

Good. Shut it down.

 

[Wildebeest]

Maybe Roblox can become a church then nobody would care.

Church or a Police Station then everyone just shrugs and says they will sort it out by themselves and they support them.

 

[TerribleAtThisGame]

Maybe Roblox can become a church then nobody would care.

All predators to be relocated to new PS5s in another county.

 

[Tajaz2426]

Oh shit, Chris is about to read some transcripts!

 

[laynelane]

The child safety issues with Roblox have been going on for far too long. I'm glad to see it being thoroughly exposed and hope to see more legal action taken against the Roblox company. A Chris Hansen documentary will only amplify the issues so I also hope to see it happen too.

 

[Mithos]

It begins.

Louisiana attorney general sues Roblox, calling the platform 'the perfect place for pedophiles'

The lawsuit accuses the company of intentionally or recklessly designing a platform that allows millions of users to easily create accounts with fake birthdays.

www.nbcnews.com

https://people.com/roblox-hit-with-hundreds-of-child-predator-lawsuits-11791567

 

[StereoVsn]

It begins.

Louisiana attorney general sues Roblox, calling the platform 'the perfect place for pedophiles'

The lawsuit accuses the company of intentionally or recklessly designing a platform that allows millions of users to easily create accounts with fake birthdays.

www.nbcnews.com

https://people.com/roblox-hit-with-hundreds-of-child-predator-lawsuits-11791567

Well, well, well… it will be interesting to see if any other State AGs join the lawsuit.

Roblox has been getting away with shit for years, that I am legit surprised they haven't been sued before like this.

 

[rkofan87]

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oh god not this guy.

 

[rkofan87]

Still waiting for the plot twist where we find out that Chris Hansen was the predator the whole time.

on my lap

 

[Neilg]

Roblox is bizzare. This article made huge waves and yet their stock price went UP

Roblox: Inflated Key Metrics For Wall Street And A Pedophile Hellscape For Kids – Hindenburg Research

hindenburgresearch.com

 

[Woopah]

That would be the cleanest, best pleasure.

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

What?! No way!

 

[Bert Big Balls]

Good. Shut these fuckers down. Load of old bollocks.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

Roblox is bizzare. This article made huge waves and yet their stock price went UP

Roblox: Inflated Key Metrics For Wall Street And A Pedophile Hellscape For Kids – Hindenburg Research

hindenburgresearch.com

Which should tell you something about those investors and the company itself, broadly speaking.

 

[ssringo]

It begins.

Louisiana attorney general sues Roblox, calling the platform 'the perfect place for pedophiles'

The lawsuit accuses the company of intentionally or recklessly designing a platform that allows millions of users to easily create accounts with fake birthdays.

www.nbcnews.com

https://people.com/roblox-hit-with-hundreds-of-child-predator-lawsuits-11791567

Here's a video from an attorney going over this news as well.



Burn that shit to the ground.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Netflix?

 

[Idleyes]

The 42-page suit points to a raft of sexually explicit "experiences" that have been on the platform, including "Escape to Epstein Island," "Diddy Party" and "Public Bathroom Simulator Vibe," and it alleges that a man arrested on suspicion of possessing child sexual abuse material in Louisiana last month was using the platform at the time he was taken into custody.

Wow. Honestly, this is the main reason I stopped playing online multiplayer games. Anytime I ended up in a group and heard what sounded like a kid, I'd think, "Yeah, I'm too old for this." It happened so often that I finally gave up on multiplayer entirely and stuck to single-player experiences, and I haven't regretted it since.

 

[RomanceDawn]

I worked with a guy who got Chris Hansened. Looking forward to how this turns out.

 

[ssringo]

I worked with a guy who got Chris Hansened. Looking forward to how this turns out.

I didn't work with the person directly but we had a frequently hired contractor that got gathered up in a multi-state operation about a decade ago. Kinda scary to find out, literally, how close these disgusting subhumans can be.

 

[Roman Empire]

Sold my Roblox shares at an all-time high just a week or so ago. It looks like it was the right time.

 

[laynelane]

Interesting vid on the topic of Roblox and this latest news (the kidnapping). TLDW: dude made the ultimate sacrifice and played it so we don't have to - he found a lot of stuff. Beyond the metric shitload of stuff that's inappropriate for kids; there was monetization that makes phone games look tame, blatant copyright infringement (even Nintendo IPs - eg. sound bites ripped right from their games), no real checks to make sure kids can't access obvious adult content, etc.

It made me think of how games are perceived by the general public and how that perception lets loonies like Collective Shout and payment processors censor our hobby. Roblox is an example of everything that is wrong with gaming and it's flew under the radar for so long because it's "for kids" (which makes it even worse, imo).

 

[CLW]

Hopefully 1/2 of REEEEEEEEEEEE winds up in jail

 

[Kenneth Haight]

Fuck Roblox, hope it crashes and burns

 

[realcool]

Documentaries exposing pedophiles are cool, but you know what's even cooler? "Temporary insanity."

 

[ResilientBanana]

Roblox CEOs are going to have to sit on a stool

Or have it pushed in.

 

[SuperC]

Lol
It's not about the children
It's about controlling us
Remember those fuckers allowed naked men to show their privates to children in Pride Month

 

[ReBurn]

It begins.

Louisiana attorney general sues Roblox, calling the platform 'the perfect place for pedophiles'

The lawsuit accuses the company of intentionally or recklessly designing a platform that allows millions of users to easily create accounts with fake birthdays.

www.nbcnews.com

https://people.com/roblox-hit-with-hundreds-of-child-predator-lawsuits-11791567

 

[Majima Everywhere System]

They need a Jason Statham movie to clean up this mess.

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

 

[Super Lemon Drop]

What do you think will happen if we find out that Chris Hansen is a pedophile?

 

[MrA]

Even more egregious than all of that is the hideous art in Roblox, nothing that ugly should be allowed to exist