Posted on 02/21/2026 4:21:05 AM PST by Libloather
Los Angeles County has slapped Roblox with a lawsuit accusing the wildly popular kids’ gaming platform of giving predators a gateway to groom and exploit children.
The suit alleges Roblox falsely marketed itself as a safe haven for kids while operating what officials called a “breeding ground for predators.”
The platform boasts more than 151 million daily active users, with over 40% under age 13.
Roblox “has created a massive, largely unsupervised online world where adults and children mingle with little functional oversight,” the complaint states, accusing the company of designing a platform that creates “foreseeable pathways for adults to access and target minors at scale.”
The county alleges the structure of the platform itself — not just rogue users — enables predators to find and groom children.
The suit, filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, bluntly claims that Roblox’s design “makes children easy prey for pedophiles,” arguing the company “has failed to implement reasonable and readily available safety measures” including age verification, default communication restrictions, meaningful parental controls and effective reporting systems.
Instead, officials say, key protections were either missing or too weak to prevent exploitation.
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Supposedly the accusations are technically true but we all know government only wants this as an excuse to have a mandated digital ID and make it a crime to be anonymous online
What kind of fools give their children computer access or let them game?
They do facial age recognition now to try to prevent grooming, but they were forced into doing so because of lawsuits.
I think Missouri and Louisiana had filed against them.
The same could be said of the Los Angeles Unified School District, except it includes both online and in person. Mote vs. beam.
This does not compute. Democrats love pedos. They elected the most disgusting depraved pedo who molested his own daughter as president. They adore pedos in Hollyweird. This guy must have dirt on someone.
Yeah, this sounds more like someone didn’t get paid. If you get my drift.
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