Posted on 10/08/2025 9:48:28 AM PDT by DFG
Kentucky is suing Roblox for allegedly allowing child predators to run rampant on its platform and exposing children to heinous material — including simulators of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
The lawsuit, filed Monday by the office of Attorney General Russell Coleman, alleged that the gaming platform with 111 million active monthly users lacks guardrails to protect kids and creates a “playground” for pedophiles to meet potential victims, according to the document obtained by The Post.
Due to lax age verification protocols, child predators often create accounts on the massive multiplayer online game and game creation system and pose as children to lure in victims, the lawsuit alleged.
The free-for-all nature of the platform — used by two-thirds of all US children between ages 9 and 12 — has also allegedly allowed graphic, violent, and sexual material to be proliferated to minors, prosecutors claimed.
Citing a recent example, prosecutors detailed an influx of Charlie Kirk “assassination simulators” following the Turning Point USA co-founder’s death last month at a Utah Valley University campus event.
The simulations allowed “children as young as five years old to access animated bloody depictions of the September 10 shooting,” the lawsuit said.
“Roblox is designed to allow predators easy access to children and to use Roblox to groom and lure children from virtual contact to physical meetings, leading to harassment, kidnapping, trafficking, violence, and sexual assault of minors, all instances of which these children suffer as a direct result of Defendants’ actions and inactions,” the AG argued.
“For years, countless children have been sexually exploited and abused by predators they met on Roblox,” prosecutors wrote.
In a press conference with Coleman on Tuesday, Kentucky mother of three Courtney Norris said she mistakenly viewed Roblox as a safe online gaming choice for her children.
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About time
I bet Roblox doesn’t allow simulations of a Jewish woman Zaynab poisoning Muhammad (and possibly being what killed him later when he was alone with his precious child bride Aisha).
Horsecrap.
There is no forever or irreparable in this world.
I think Russia has made a mistake because they’ve revealed they can’t really threaten direct retaliation if we give the tomahawk missiles. This talk about ruining relations doesn’t sound like enough to deter the decision.
How the heck did that reply of mine end up on this thread?
The miracle of Windows 11?
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States and the FedGov should consider mandating an age minimum for downloading these games. It’s already done for tobacco and firearms, and adults who facilitate the purchase should likewise be held to account. It should certainly pass muster. If a judge rules it illegal, that would trash their state laws requiring similar oversight of tobacco and firearms.
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