Sam Biddle
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 22 Jan
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That wouldn't be an argument against having, you know, playgrounds, but it is a largely unsupervised place for children to congregate.
It's a place where you can get away from your parents, right?
And no matter how good of a parent you are, if they're on roadblocks, you're not also on roadblocks, right?
Unless you're standing over their shoulder nonstop, which no one wants.
And just to say, like, these are the cases that have been prosecuted, right?
That is one well-known, well-documented example.
There are surely more.
I think that the company wants to have it both ways.
I think that they don't want to have the responsibility for having this virtual mega community for children and also be on the hook for policing it.
I mean, whenever I asked the company about this in the course of writing this story, they said over and over again, we believe really strongly in empowering parents to make
You know, it's the same it's the same old thing, right?
Like, yeah, they create the problem.
Now it's your job to clean it up.
Yeah.
But as I also get into the piece, I think that there is also a great danger presented by the really rabid commercialization of children's spaces.
That's obviously less relevant.
provocative than children being molested i mean that's horrific but i think far more common is children being preyed upon by marketers and advertisers in a obviously very very very different way but i think that brands and pedophiles are both drawn to roblox for the same reason which is it's an easy place to get kids to find kids like that's where they are that's where you meet them at but do the kids even know they're being advertised to i mean i spoke to people for this article who started playing roblox when they were
maybe just at the age where they could start to read, right?
Like truly the most developing of developing brains.
We don't know what it will do to a young mind if you grow up exposed to this kind of stuff for hours and hours and hours every day, how that shapes your view, your conception of social relations, how it shapes your conception of
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