The game has become yet another frontier in the ongoing battle over content moderation and appropriate lines of speech on private platforms that are now often spaces where people congregate.įor years, YouTube, Reddit, Instagram, Facebook and many other sites and services have faced similar struggles. While most people use the game’s platform to create fun, innocuous characters, some have used it to try to spread hateful messages. Roblox, like Minecraft, allows users to create avatars and virtual worlds for those characters to roam around in. “Did you know you have members on your site promoting #WhitePowerExtremist #DomesticTerrorism groups?” “My kid plays Roblox,” she wrote in an attempt to alert the company. While such disturbing user names, profiles and content in Roblox aren’t new, they got renewed attention from this woman’s tweets. This week, a Twitter user by the name of started to find neo-Nazi references on Roblox, a popular online game that has more than 100 million active users worldwide and is popular with children.
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