Sam Biddle
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first heard Jan 2026
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terrific uh video sort of criticism of this child labor dynamic that i would really encourage people to watch it's by a youtuber named i believe people make games if you search people make games roblox child labor it'll come up um and he says if this were happening in the real world it would be illegal no one would ever tolerate this kind of working arrangement in the real world but because it's happening on a virtual platform it's kind of
obscured the dynamics here between Dave Buzuki and a 14-year-old making virtual shoes.
There are enough layers between those two people that we have decided to tolerate this for whatever reason.
You know, they have their their their share price has been rocked quite a bit by scandals and lawsuits.
I mean, they are a magnet for bad press, I think, in particular because of the I mean, this will probably not surprise anyone.
The pedophilia worries, I think,
have proven far more harmful to their share price and their bottom line than sort of the hyper commercialization advertising stuff.
Whenever there has been a new report or high profile legal case or a lawsuit and the words Roblox and pedophile are in the same headline, yes, that has knocked them a little bit, but I mean, not that much.
I mean, I think that depends on whether you think that this country has the political will and interest to invest.
legislate uh for child safety which by and large it does not i think that tech companies tend to have the both cash reserves and the tenacity to withstand lawsuits even really bad lawsuits i think that that's the kind of thing that could harm them short term but in the long term they are growing and growing and growing and their ambitions are growing and growing and growing
They're also sitting on a giant ocean of extremely sensitive, granular data about kids, which is of immense value to advertisers.
And they haven't really, I think they've only just sort of started to tap that.
So, you know, if I am deeply cynical and mercenary, I probably say, yeah, like this company is a pretty bright future company.
You know, it's really funny.
I mean, try to imagine a company that was...
soliciting the labor of children and then paying them in company script.
That would never be, not in this century would that ever be, or the last one really, would that be looked upon favorably?
My absolute pleasure.
Well, I can't say my pleasure, but it was great being here.
And yeah, I don't think people should...
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