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From next month it will start enforcing facial age estimation to allow children to chat with strangers only if they are in their broad age group.
This is going to backfire spectacularly, what idiots.
Right on its face, is it even legal to collect head shots of minors? I know US privacy laws are a joke but there's usually some carve outs that protect minors.
It's illegal to collect ANY data from children under 13. Facial scans are WAY worse than the anonymized use stats those laws were put in place to block
It’s illegal to collect ANY data from children under 13.
Really?
Can't protect them too much, though. Otherwise, how would the pedo-in-chief and his ilk get a fresh crop of sex slaves?
Gonna be funny when they get hacked and all that info leaks.
No, no. It makes perfect sense from an investment standpoint. Their actual target audience would love to be able to pay for access to that catalog.
Problem: the game is getting a notoriety for being infested by pedophiles and the developers are actively protecting them.
Solution: send your photographs to the game infested by pedophiles to prove you are a real child!
Fucking. Incredible. If this was written in a manuscript, it would be tossed for being too cartoonishly unrealistic.
I don't allow my kids to play it. It sucks, but the reality is the game has been captured by pedos. I saw too many questionable things when I watched them play. Invariably they will be unsupervised at some point, even for brief periods, so it is not worth the risk.
See, what I figured out is that I don't have to let my son play Roblox. Sure, he might be the "weird" one who's dad doesn't let him. But he was going to be "weird" anyway. That's just how our lives work.
Plus you have AuADHD, having it myself, it makes you vulnerable to predators in ways you can't understand yet.
Hey there's maybe tens of us! Hello fellow reasonable parent!
FINALLY a good parent!
Please have more babies!
I would happily have more babies as children are fun.
Unfortunately that requires a partner who values intelligence, child development, learning and desires children. When I find such a unicorn I'll make as many babies as I can reasonably raise (probably like 2 or three more maximum)
We play by the same rule, everyone is weird, no judgement for immutable characteristics. Everyone has challenges, life is already hard, no reason to make it harder for someone.
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I wouldn't be complaining about this, except I am because Roblox is operated by pedos.
Something extreme measures such as face recognition has to be taken to ensure problems like this won't happen again. However, though, pedophiles having access to data storage containing such verifications can go so wrong on so many levels.
So heres what they should do:
Fire and prosecute all of the pedos. Replace the pedos with trustworthy people to operate Roblox. Then go through verifying.
Option 2.......shut down roblox. It doesn't NEED to exist.
I like this option best, tbh.
So, Roblox is shutting down? The entire thing is a child sex crime, so unless they’re shutting down, nothing has changed
Totally sounds like it will only stops kids talking to adults but not adults talking to kids. The creeps already try to get their victims to communicate off-platform using unmoderated services. Unless this blocks the kids' from seeing the adults' messages, the adults trying to fuck with kids could just tell them to use a different messenger.
after string of lawsuits.
This. Imagine being a company who suddenly has to do the right thing simply because they can't afford the "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" approach any more.
Litigation may be an awful substitute for regulation, but at least its having some positive effect here.
Shame about the way they're doing it, though. It's a wet dream for politicians and activists in favour of age verification, and for the hackers who'll inevitability get their hands on all of it.
I don't know if I would call mandatory facial recognition for children online "the right thing."
I would say it is the parent's responsibility to know what their child is doing and what platforms their child is using. If something horrible should happen, my first finger to point at would be the parents not doing anything to prevent it, usually out of negligence, not the Roblox company. A company can only do so much before they begin to assume control of responsibilities a parent has, and I would prefer governments and businesses have as little control over raising children as possible.
This is why many parents used to restrict children's access to the internet to only when the parent can directly monitor it until they were an adult. Sometimes a "family computer" in a common room with the screen plainly visible was the one a child could use. Sadly, it appears this is no longer the case, and more and more parents are ignorant of what their children do.
If someone's dog eats all the pills they left out on the counter and dies, it isn't the fault of the dog and it isn't the fault of the medical company that made the pills, its the fault of the owner for being negligent by not watching the dog and leaving the pills out. This is my opinion.
Not even "can't afford". They're rolling in money. They merely made the calculation that paying lip service to the problem (and farming their user base for even more data to leverage, count on it) could cost less than future lawsuits.
It's funny how we can just browbeat people into doing what we want.
Rules and laws don't matter.
By asking them to verify their age via selfie. We live in the worst time line.
Come on, it's not like anybody can just create a unique selfie of a kid. They'd have to be artists or something. /s
Fuck yeah! I can finally enjoy my Roblox without being harassed by children.