La Russia ha vietato Snapchat, FaceTime e Roblox: nuova stretta digitale @scienza https://leganerd.com/2025/12/06/la-russia-ha-vietato-snapchat-facetime-e-roblox-nuova-stretta-digitale/
This is the dumbest take on what’s happening. The Quest 3 is better than the Pro and it comes out next month. We don’t need the Pro anymore. Some of y’all need to use some critical thinking. Roblox also just recently got a lot of attention towards it from Meta; it’s not a coincidence these were Roblox devs that the Pros were given to.
The children yearn for the fast food jobs, Overcooked and Roblox games have proven that.
Im convinced this and the similar age “verification” for Roblox using face pictures is just to help train AI on faces and has little to do with any of the safety bullshit. Even if the image isnt saved, they can still presumably add it to training data during the verification process before tossing the file. This is pretty standard course for most image processing AI stuff.
And if they learn about wine and lutris and manage to install Roblox, they’ll probably get more out of it than by listening to the class in the first place ! I learned so much by circumventing the school security stuff. I probably wouldn’t be in IT if not for the parental control limitations and school network blocks
security is my priority WhatsApp and Roblox come on, a low-effort troll still needs some effort.
It’s nice to see gaming covered in NYT at all. The article generally rings hollow to me. I’m not an industry expert, but: It’s easy to be profitable when you’re just making a sandbox and your players make the games, but at that point are you a game developer? (Roblox) High end graphics cards have become so expensive that people can’t afford gaming with good graphics AAA developers aren’t optimizing games as well as they used to, so only high end hardware would even run them AAA is more focused on loot boxes, microtransactions, season passes, and cinematics all wrapped up in great visuals. That’s at the expense of innovative gameplay and interesting stories. Making the graphics worse won’t get execs to greenlight better games, just uglier ones. And they’ll still be $70. Even when games are huge successes and profitable, studios are getting bought and shut down (EA, Microsoft, Sony?), so it’s hard to say the corps are hurting.
Where are the kids then? Roblox?
It argues that if Roblox and Discord had taken steps to screen users before allowing them on apps, or implemented age and identity verification and other safety measures, “Ethan would have never interacted with this predator, never suffered the harm that he did, and never died by suicide.” They want these sites to screen every users ID on sign up. I’m sure the courts will love another, “for the children” security bill.
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Fortnite, Grand Theft Auto, Roblox: not names normally associated with activism, though they have been weaponized by right-wing extremists to radicalize young men. But recently, groups of progressive gamers organized by the New Save Collective have been using these platforms to build communities of like-minded people, and even to practice what they might do to interfere with an ICE raid. From Wired: “Games like Halo or first-person shooters already have built-in messaging around ‘protect the homeland,’ Anosh Polticoal says. ‘I think [ICE] have seen that as an opportunity to reach an audience that is already engaged in what they may feel is similar work. We want to make sure that our message is showing up in those same places—maybe you are not an immigrant, but someone in your life, in your community definitely is.’” (Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)
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Roskomnadzor, Russia’s telecommunications watchdog, has blocked access to the Roblox online gaming platform for failing to stop the distribution of what it described as LGBT propaganda and extremist materials.
I managed to almost completly keep my children away from it for now (8 and 10). But it is a struggle. And I will soon lose that struggle. So many children at age 8 or 9 have smartphones for fs sake. I plan to slowly introduce them to stuff like this, so they will be able to deal with it. I did so rather successfully with the other bullshit, like Roblox. They are only allowed to play it when I am in the room, and I check that they follow that rule (they do). Feels like walking on the edge though. Still unsure when to open the TikTok thing. Too early is bad, but too late and they will somehow already he on tiktok and I just don’t know about it.
Roblox didn’t become a $53 billion company by respecting minors, but it’s still pretty odd that the solution to child predators is making questionable demands of kids who can’t give consent. Be careful when you fight monsters, I guess.