Roblox gets banned indefinitely in Turkey over “child exploitation”

Broken clock moment for Erdy

Seriously.

Now let’s do it everywhere.

Why? I don’t know anything about the game, is it bad for kids?

It’s bad and it’s kids. Like, the game is no better if you doin’t aim it at kids, but the fact they intentionally employ child labor as a gamified device is just disgusting.

It’s a game designed for kids with not enough moderation/limitations for a kids game. There’s literal porn games if you look in the right places (called ‘condo games’)

Yeah, the other problem with these kinds of open-ended social games that are heavily aimed at children is that adults who want to exploit children will play those games for that express purpose.

Same issue with games like VRChat, and to a less extent, Fortnite.

At least he cares about Palestinians. Unlike Kamala. Mrs. “Shut up, I’m talking”.

And I could say at least Kamala doesn’t have all her political opponents locked up. I wouldn’t do that though because boiling a politician down to a single issue doesn’t make any sense.

Maybe not to you, but when 15,000 children have been murdered and an entire population is starving, then boiling a politician down to a single issue does make sense to me.

Typical American apathetic to genocide.

You asked Joe Biden to step down and you got what you wanted. Good job, be happy.

You can do the right thing for the wrong reasons and this is a classic case. He’s an ethno-nationalist. Ask him how he feels about Kurdish minorities or the genocide of Armenians.

Is this sarcasm? This feels like sarcasm.

Now do it everywhere else

Will someone please explain to me how a video game exploits children.

You could start with this People Make Games video from a couple of years ago. https://youtu.be/_gXlauRB1EQ?si=Ttg4-Bust1K-X-22

I said explain. It’s this old school thing we used to do where we JUST TELL A PERSON SOMETHING

I get what you are saying, and actually agree with out. But you don’t have to be an asshole about it. No one has the obligation to attend your tantrums.

Children make games on Roblox (real games, the thing people do working in the industry), Roblox makes money off those games and pays close to nothing to the children. Therefore, exploits children.

Sometimes, there are already resources explaining more clearly and thoroughly than we could. And although I’m unsure if this case qualifies, there are definitely topics that can’t be reduced to a few sentences. Thus, a reputable link is often worth more to both sides: it saves the explainer time and effort while informing the target far better.

If you don’t want to engage with the content, I believe there are better ways to go about it than being rude to people who were likely trying to help.

The video is an explanation, none of us want to regurgitate multiple 30-45 minute videos that already explain exactly what your asking.

The video is an explanation.

Obvious bad faith argument

This comment is such a beautifully concise argument for the existence of block buttons. Toodles~

No we didn’t. Telling people something was invented in 2016 by russian bots in Kamchatka on Twitter.

Watch the video or feed it into ChatGPT for a summary or Google a pre-existing summary.

Read the article and find out

Just give me the broad strokes

Stop expecting handouts with 0 effort especially when the answer is one tap away.

Lemme compile it all into a 20 second tiktok video

Kids make maps. Stuff in the maps is sold for Roblox bucks. Roblox bucks cost money to buy. The kid who makes the map gets the Roblox bucks, and can sell them. The problem is you only get 30% back when you sell a Roblox buck.

So kids spend time making big maps and servers, buying ads, getting shoutouts on YouTube/whatever, and Roblox takes a 70% cut from all of it

Sounds like a normal business that gives kids a chance to make money.

Its exploiting child labor and the impulsive brain chemistry of adolescence.

A normal business, yes. Normal businesses are highly and cruelly exploitative, which is why we decided 80 years ago (in the US) that children, at the very least, should be protected from them.