Liz Murrill, Attorney General of the State of Louisiana, has announced the filing of a lawsuit against Roblox, the online game platform owned by Roblox Corporation. Murrill alleged in the tweet that Roblox lacks essential safety protocols, making it a veritable breeding ground for sex predators, which is especially egregious since the game's audience is primarily composed of children.
The lawsuit goes pretty hard against the Roblox Corporation, as you can read from the excerpts below:
For years, Defendant has knowingly enabled and facilitated the systemic sexual exploitation and abuse of children across the United States, including in Louisiana. Through willful disregard and deceptive practices, Defendant has permitted and perpetuated an online environment in which child predators thrive, directly contributing to the widespread victimization of minor children in Louisiana. Defendant's deliberate failure to implement effective safety measures to protect child users from well-documented predatory threats, along with its ongoing failure to warn parents and children of the foreseeable dangers posed by its platform, has directly facilitated the widespread sexual exploitation of minors and inflicted severe, lasting harm upon the children of Louisiana.
Of course, while the lawsuit focuses mainly on Louisiana, the issue is actually a global one. Roblox has slowly but steadily grown since its original 2006 launch, becoming the leading platform for user-generated content (UGC). In February 2025, the company reportedly registered 85.3 million daily active users. Roblox Corporation also says that half of all American children under 16 play the game at least once a month.
The platform has already been banned from several countries, including China, Jordan, North Korea, Oman, Qatar, and Turkey, specifically because of the risks of child exploitation. A few months after the Turkey ban, Roblox announced the introduction of new child safety measures: users under the age of 13 now need permission from their parents to access certain chat features, and those under the age of 9 need parental consent to access experiences that have a content maturity label of "Moderate."
However, Louisiana's Attorney General does not believe those safety measures are nearly enough, as evidenced by the lawsuit. Incidentally, Roblox just made a controversial announcement: it is removing 'vigilantes' who helped 'police' the game environment against issues like those described in the lawsuit. According to the game developers, their behaviour was causing an unsafe environment for users.
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