One of the most famous Roblox Simulator games ever, Pet Simulator seems to have big announcements to the public. BIG Games, the developer team behind Pet Simulator said “Get ready for BIG, soon”. KonekoKitten, a Roblox YouTuber made a video of it. 🔗: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yubjUraLa0
I’m so confused. Are “police” in this context game mods? Other users role playing as police? Or is this saying real life police made roblox accounts to go shoot children protesters in a video game? I only ask because we live in the dumbest timeline, where I could totally believe this could happen.
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Roblox is the inevitable, capitalistic result of any game that targets or has a major audience of children while relying heavily on additional purchases (ro-bux or whatever in their case) to do fun things or be seen as cool, better etc. It’s very simple. Children do not have access to money in any meaningful amount as they are children. Thus they cannot afford these things. Children also have poor decision making, poor impulse control, are naive, and so on and so forth. Their brains are not fully developed. They take excess risks without thinking of consequences. They’re impulsive. So what are a bunch of impulsive, poor impulse control, dying to fit in, naive, poor decision making, kids who need money to do? They get it from pedophiles who flock there to exchange their adult money and use their adult mental faculties to exploit, groom, and pay kids the thing they desperately need (in-game currency) in exchange for sexual exploitation. This will never not be a problem. There are schemes for proving one is an adult with a state ID, face scans, AI comparisons, possession of a credit card, etc. There is no similar test or reliable way to authenticate a user as a guaranteed minor so you cannot keep adults out. You can totally kill all ability for player communication but that’s not profitable (and also wouldn’t stop a proliferation of third party sites enabling such “matchings” of kids who want money for robux with pedophiles). You could remove the in-game currency but that’s not profitable. You could do your utmost to get rid of kid players and never target them in the first-place but that’s not profitable. The only solution is banning games with this kind of economy entirely or making a rule that if they target kids as an audience or develop a meaningful audience of children they cannot provably get rid of they are subject to painful loss of money in the form of this kind of stuff being banned for them until that ceases being the case. But that’s not profitable. So, online ID laws for porn or accessing speech platforms online = not protecting kids. Banning predatory games that target and groom minors to need real money to be cool, progress, have fun, etc = protecting kids. Only the former is actually being widely implemented across the west.
Roblox has recently made a change, to update the in-experience look of the cursor. In-Experience:
It would be helpful to understand what types of games the kid was playing in the first place to suggest alternatives. I ripped this answer from quora on how to see which games within roblox your child was playing Game History: Roblox used to have a “Game History” feature that allowed users to view a list of recently played games. This feature showed the last few games you played, but it was limited in terms of historical data. It’s worth checking if this feature is still available in your account settings. Roblox Account Activity: You can check your Roblox account’s activity feed, which may show some information about recent game interactions and achievements. However, this feed typically doesn’t display a comprehensive game history. Roblox API: Some third-party websites and tools may offer services that attempt to retrieve and display more extensive game history data by accessing Roblox’s API. Be cautious when using third-party services and make sure they are reputable and secure. I went looking for any kind of account tracker and to no one’s surprise they are mostly about account value from items, not so much about worlds/experiences they have been on. Most of the responses I’ve seen on here are just suggesting games which may or may not be to your kids looking purely based on those games being generally accepted as good.
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Trillion dollar investment to do a AAA remake of roblox tycoon games.
I used to frequent IRC servers as a child (~age 10-13) and won a contest once that earned me voice (+) status for a week after sniffing out the most pedophiles in a dedicated kids channel. Was easy enough to do by running a /whois (or whatever the command was) on participants to see if they were also in channels like #dadsforboys and reporting them to channel operators (who were probably jerking off to us also). The fact that this was all perfectly normal to me by that point, and that I was so wholly unfazed by these types that I would sometimes fuck with them, is kind of alarming. I guess I’ll just carry that awareness going forward with my own children and keep them off of IRC/Roblox/whatever else might expose them to the vast world of internet cum creeps. It’s worth mentioning that I had a number of IRC girlfriends back then as well, and I suspect at least two of them were adult men pretending to be adolescents. I remember one “girl” in particular was from San Antonio and insisted her 12-year-old ex-boyfriend from Canada (who her dad called “Moose”) had already flown down to stay with them once. I guess I was next (not that my mom would have allowed that). However, I didn’t realize at the time that she/he was Hispanic, and eventually sent them the comedic “Mexican Americans” song by Cheech Marin in glorious .wav format, to which the recipient became deeply offended and stopped speaking to me entirely. Might have just saved my life. https://youtu.be/LLqqZmNFa_A
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Parents share stories of harm and call to stop “voyeuristic” and “stalker-like” practices that turn child data into dollars for tech companies. The first mass mobilization of parents to raise awareness and demand real online protections for their kids launched this morning, with parents joining forces in an unprecedented campaign to end child surveillance. The privacy-first demands of EndChildSurveillance.com are backed by stories of harm from parents in the US. Parents are sharing stories about youtube recommending videos to six year olds that tell them to kill themselves with a kitchen knife; invasive educational tools failing to recognize their child’s face; school systems spending millions of dollars on racially biased security systems that misidentify Black people at much higher rates, and more. These stories add to the grim picture of the digital lives of children in the US today—where surveillance capitalist business models force kids to endure harmful exploitation and manipulation so that tech companies can pad their bottom line. For years, digital rights groups sounded the alarm on the exploitation of vulnerable people’s private data online. Now, with the children’s ad market valued at $1.7 billion, 67% of Google Play apps for kids under 5 giving away data to third party advertisers, and Facebook allowing advertisers to market pill parties and anorexia to teens as recently as this month, parents have had enough. “Parents across the country are worried that their kids’ information is insidiously being used by big tech companies to make a profit. These companies are purposefully designing their platforms to addict children, collect their private information, and sell access to them,” said Justin Ruben (he/him), co-Director of ParentsTogether Action. “From exposing our children to inappropriate content to handing their information over to unscrupulous advertisers, tech companies have shown that there are no limits to what they will do to make money.” At EndChildSurveillance.com, parents will find an explainer video as well as a breakdown of the four pillars of child surveillance, based on the demands of the Stop Spying On Kids letter released by 18 human & digital rights groups earlier this year. Parents can learn more and take action by signing a variety of petitions to Congress and Big Tech companies like YouTube—laying the foundation for escalating actions in the fight to protect kids from Big Tech’s harmful surveillance business model. “The way these companies manipulate and exploit children is a human rights disaster,” said Lia Holland (she/they) Campaigns & Communications Director at digital rights nonprofit Fight for the Future, which is helping to organize the campaign. “No one should be able to search ‘TikTok account of insecure girl under 12 with red hair who just did bad on her english test and walks down a street near me alone at the same time every school day’—but these companies are collecting all of that data without anyone’s consent right now. And we have no idea what they’re doing with it. All these databases are vulnerable to hackers—if child data isn’t outright sold to literally anyone who can pay. Most kids in this country cannot learn, cannot communicate with their friends and family, cannot even walk down the street without data about them being harvested and logged forever.” Under constant surveillance and manipulation from advertisers and educational tech companies, children’s mental health is also suffering. Black kids are often misidentified or ignored by ‘snake oil’ school surveillance tech, while others are being served social media ads that prey upon their insecurities. All kids are being harmed. EndChildSurveillance.com calls for a ban on addictive apps, a ban on voyeuristic advertising, the end of educational stalkerware, and a hard stop on the chronic surveillance of children. Renee Cheatham (she/her), is part of a lawsuit against the Lockport school district for installing an expensive, flawed, and racially biased facial recognition biometric surveillance system at her son’s school. “I send my son to school to learn and to be in a safe environment for learning—but he feels like he’s in prison, under a lens of toxic surveillance that is wasting taxpayer money on fake solutions that misidentify people and retired police officers that want to carry loaded guns. This is a serious safety issue for our children, Black and brown kids are under attack. We need restorative justice in this Lockport community, not some surveillance system ramping the school to prison pipeline again in our schools. It all ties together.” Dr. Janice Wyatt-Ross Ed.D (she/her) is speaking out after her daughter was required to use a stalkerware-like eproctoring app, Proctorio, at her school: “My daughter Amaya could not easily sit down to take a biology quiz like her White classmates because proctoring software would not “recognize” her as a person. She took the test at noon with sunlight streaming through her window, and turned on all the lights in her room. It still didn’t work. She tried 10 times. She literally had to shine an LED flashlight in her face before the software would allow her to take the quiz. This type of bias piles additional stress and anxiety onto kids of color who are already dealing with the challenges of remote learning, and it tells them they don’t belong.” Courtney, a parent in Columbus, OH who preferred that their last name not be used, reached out to Parents Together with the following story of addictive apps recommending harmful content: "My 6-year-old daughter was watching an innocent-looking Roblox video on YouTube Kids. Then at one point it was saying “kill yourself” and “get the knives” I locked up our knives because I was afraid. I don’t trust YouTube.” Amanda, a parent in Gilbert, LA who preferred that their last name not be used, shared the following story about voyeuristic advertising preying on their daughter: “My 11 yr old daughter has been watching TikTok and using SnapChat for a while…She has recently shown signs of being depressed and I honestly believe it’s due to watching all the different things people post on social media. She even opened a secret account where she gained thousands of followers and almost a million views on this account dedicated to being sad and depressed. We have since blocked all social media apps from her phone.” Parents will be sharing stories like these with the press in support of the campaign to end child surveillance this Thursday May 20th at 9 am ET on Fight for the Future’s livestream. “The internet and technology are so big and fast-paced, the only meaningful way to defend children online is to put digital privacy first. We need to make it so that tech companies can’t make money off of exploiting children, and reduce the data-stalking of everyone in the process,” Holland continued. “Investors profit when parents believe that more surveillance and more data makes kids safer. It is time to reject this lie. Big Tech companies want their next generation of customers to be fully addicted, surveilled, and exploited from cradle to grave. Unless something changes, that’s exactly what they will have. Data on kids is the new oil until our legislators say otherwise.”
Roblox getting sued (again) by musicians and music labes becuase users can upload pirated copyrighted content to the audio library of Roblox. This is a problem, because players can use them for free, while musicians remain moneyless and creditless. Quotes from the article: The NMPA filed suit yesterday on behalf of several major music publishers. It accuses Roblox — a massively popular, kid-focused platform for games and social experiences — of hosting a shared library of copyrighted but unlicensed songs. The complaint alleges that Roblox “actively preys on its impressionable user base and their desire for popular music, teaching children that pirating music is perfectly acceptable.” Roblox responded to the complaint on its website. “We are surprised and disappointed by this lawsuit which represents a fundamental misunderstanding of how the Roblox platform operates, and will defend Roblox vigorously as we work to achieve a fair resolution,” the statement says. It notes that Roblox has partnered with music labels for authorized events like a Lil Nas X concert last year, and the company signed a licensing deal with APM Music in 2018. “We do not tolerate copyright infringement, which is why we use industry-leading, advanced filtering technology to detect and prohibit unauthorized recordings.”
Roblox now works under Linux with WINE.
Troy Hunt, the engineer behind haveibeenpwned, said the leak was posted in 2021 but according to an unnamed source didn’t spread outside of niche Roblox communities, while at the time the company did not publicly disclose the leak or alert anyone affected. The leak then appeared on a public forum a few days ago. “Roblox has now contacted everyone affected," said the company in a statement sent to Hunt. >>> So they definitely knew about it, and definitely weren’t going to do anything about it, until it became more widely known. Yet another reason to hate this horrible, stupid company. I so wish I could convince my daughter to drop Roblox. I’ve even offered to pay for a private Minecraft server for her and all her friends.
Tutorial: https://roblox.fandom.com/wiki/Roblox_on_Linux
I remember this weird moment in the 2000s when the anti-terror panic had reached full “check the terrorism weather forecast” levels of absurdity. National security ghouls were scared that World of Warcraft could be used by Al Qaeda to plan 9/12: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/09/the_pentagons_w.html In a presentation late last week at the Director of National Intelligence Open Source Conference in Washington, Dr. Dwight Toavs, a professor at the Pentagon-funded National Defense University, gave a bit of a primer on virtual worlds to an audience largely ignorant about what happens in these online spaces. Then he launched into a scenario, to demonstrate how a meatspace plot might be hidden by in-game chatter. In it, two World of Warcraft players discuss a raid on the “White Keep” inside the “Stonetalon Mountains.” The major objective is to set off a “Dragon Fire spell” inside, and make off with “110 Gold and 234 Silver” in treasure. “No one will dance there for a hundred years after this spell is cast,” one player, “war_monger,” crows. Except, in this case, the White Keep is at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. “Dragon Fire” is an unconventional weapon. And “110 Gold and 234 Silver” tells the plotters how to align the game’s map with one of Washington, D.C. It’s cool that the actual version is a lot weirder and on the child labour game ~~that is otherwise mostly used by paedophiles.~~ oh nope, got to the end. astronaut1 astronaut2 always has been. edit: Also, this channel is really interesting. He dissects the various groups on Roblox and how it’s radicalising ipad babies.
I feel this is likely assisted by the fact that they have been extremely hostile to the Linux user-base. While the people that used linux as a whole were a minority, a good portion of them were devs. There is a reason that roblox studio kept wine support where the main client blocked it, they didn’t want to isolate their map devs from the platform. However as it turns out, it’s hard to create maps on an OS that you can’t actually test your creations on, which is why the innovation as a whole for their maps have stagnated in the last few years. Less people willing to make maps for a platform that is super in your face with cash grab moments, while also being inconvenienced by artificial restrictions placed by a Dev team who still has the mentality that Linux = Hax0rs
There was a story about two teens in Germany recruited to a private discord through I think Roblox, a bellingcat podcast on use of games as recruitment mentioned it. The act of helping in the game builds trust fast and speeds up the recruitment. Luckily these two went to the police after the blackmail/encouragement/ conditioning escalated to performing real world violence. How many others didn’t? Or were pushed slower so they were more caught up? Awful stuff. And we have the UK shutting down local biking forums and fedi servers to protect children.
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I like that redsails article, but in the context of children – and this is roblox – propaganda is absolutely something people fall for