Roblox is probably the most well-liked gaming platform on the planet—much more common than you may assume. Grow a Garden, a recreation constructed throughout the app, not too long ago had 21.9 million concurrent gamers, dwarfing the likes of Fortnite and Counter-Strike 2 by a number of occasions. And that’s regardless of being an software not too long ago described as “a pedophile hellscape for kids.” Nicely, it may well now add one other related accolade to its assortment, as the whole state of Louisiana has introduced it’s suing Roblox, calling it “a breeding ground for sex predators.”
Louisiana legal professional normal Liz Murrill introduced the motion through X, explaining that she’s coming after the gaming platform resulting from its “lack of safety protocols,” and the declare that this ends in hazard for kids. Which, in most circumstances, may come throughout as all-too-familiar hyperbole from a member of presidency searching for an ethical panic to latch onto. It’s simply, within the case of Roblox, it’s one thing that’s been demonstrated to be true over and over again. However regardless of the accuracy, the query stays: What’s the precise, sensible function of this swimsuit?
“Roblox is overrun with harmful content and child predators,” says Murrill, “because it prioritizes user growth, revenue, and profits over child safety. Every parent should be aware of the clear and present danger poised to their children by Roblox so they can prevent the unthinkable from ever happening in their own home.”
🚨 BREAKING: At this time I’m suing Roblox – the #1 gaming web site for kids and youths – and a breeding floor for intercourse predators.
Because of Roblox’s lack of security protocols, it endangers the security of the kids of Louisiana. Roblox is overrun with dangerous content material and youngster predators… pic.twitter.com/p98Sq8vvMb
— Lawyer Basic Liz Murrill (@AGLizMurrill) August 14, 2025
The longer statement goes on to explain the motivation behind the swimsuit.
“Because there is no age minimum and requirement to verify age or parental permission once you sign-up, users can easily say they are younger or older than their actual age – allowing child predators to pose as children and for children to bypass any age requirement.
Once registered, users have access to millions of games such as sports, role-playing, naval, fashion, and comedy. Other games which have existed on the platform including Escape to Epstein Island, Diddy Party, and Public Bathroom Simulator Vibe are not as innocent. These games and others are often filled with sexually explicit material and simulated sexual activity such as child gang rape.”
Once more, each muscle in my physique desires to sort out why this Republican AG is mistaken and the way she’s willfully misinterpreting the details to sentence a subject she doesn’t perceive…however, properly, I’ve tested it all for myself, and it’s true. You possibly can completely enroll as being any age as much as 17 with none verification necessities, and passing as over 17 isn’t a herculean effort. However there’s no use, since lots of the violent and sexual video games are merely marked as appropriate for teenagers so there’s no restrictions to taking part in them. Oh, and regardless of my very own son not being allowed to make use of Roblox (I’m the meanest father), his buddies do and so I get to listen to about “Diddy Party” and the like much more usually than anybody might need.
Modifications have been made towards the top of 2024 that added new choices for folks, permitting them to forestall their under-13s from with the ability to use in-game chat options, and that stopped youngsters beneath 9 from accessing teenage content material. Nevertheless, it’s extra extraordinary that even these most elementary ranges of safety hadn’t been included for the app’s first 18 years. And even within the wake of those adjustments, there’s nonetheless nothing to cease a 13-year-old from accessing very grownup content material or having un-monitored textual content communication with anybody. (As a mum or dad of a 10-year-old who performs Gorilla Tag on his VR, I’m acutely conscious how rather more pernicious textual content chat is than audio.)
Teenage privateness and on-line communication is a massively fraught and sophisticated topic, one for every household to wrestle with amongst themselves, but it surely stays the case that investigations into Roblox have discovered teams “openly trading child pornography and soliciting sexual acts from minors,” even when signed in utilizing under-13 accounts.
Now, clearly the overwhelming majority of the 80 million individuals who play Roblox every single day are effective, even when they’re having their valuable youths wasted on Italian Brainrot memes. I believe what most individuals are after is simply extra effort on the elements of the homeowners to higher defend younger customers from the very obvious harms that are possible. Though given a few of the awful things those owners are wont to say, hopes for widespread sense aren’t excessive.
It’ll be fascinating to see what this peculiar lawsuit is meant to realize. It appears extra like attention-seeking noise than something sensible. The article cites the identical Hindenburg Analysis investigation we’ve linked above, after which mentions a current case in Livingston Parish the place a house was raided after somebody was making an attempt to lure youngsters through Roblox (we haven’t been capable of confirm this, and even the text of the official lawsuit doesn’t cite any proof), earlier than stating, “For these and other reasons, Roblox is in violation of Louisiana law.”
Which legal guidelines?
“The State is seeking permanent injunctive relief and prohibiting them from:
- Engaging in any activity in violation of Louisiana Unfair Trade Practices Act:
- Representing that Roblox has adequate safety features
- Restitution to the State of Louisiana
- Attorney’s fees
- All additional civil penalties allowable under law
- All additional damages allowable under law”
Presumably there’s a hope that this can power Roblox, the corporate, to take its tasks extra severely, given it can not management its distribution on a state-by-state stage. Nevertheless, it appears extra possible the kerjillion-dollar firm will simply settle to make all of it go away.
