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Cyber-safety experts have sounded the alarm over vulnerabilities in popular gaming platform Roblox that could leave children exposed to sexually suggestive content.
Leonie Smith, who teaches about online safety as the Cyber Safety Lady, last week posted on her Facebook page about a party room in Meep City, one of the most popular games on the platform. She shared screenshots of lewd signs in the room created by users of the game.
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“I love gaming and this isn’t about me being a wet blanket,” she said. “I just want parents to know what the risks are. Sometimes I go in there and experience nothing, other times it’s rampant. It has to be suitable and safe if you’re going to say you allow kids under the age of 13, which they do.”
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On another occasion, she played a game rated for under-13s with an audio loop that sounded like two people having sex with “moaning and groaning and humping and pumping”. The chat was full of confused children saying they thought it might be a recording of someone being hurt, while other children who recognised the sounds said it was “disgusting”.
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Roblox has become the most popular game for primary school kids.
Roblox, which is due to list on the New York Stock Exchange via a direct listing early this year, has 31 million daily active users and nearly 7 million active developers building for the platform.
A Roblox spokesperson said safety was a top priority and parents should be confident the company is taking “every step possible and continually evolving the tagged with DISBOARD servers robloxsex Discord safety measures”.
“We have a stringent safety system – one of the most rigorous of any platform, going well beyond regulatory requirements,” the spokesperson said.
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But Ms Smith said the open environment, which is multiplayer by default and allows user-generated content, meant it could never be completely safe. She called for Roblox to follow Minecraft’s lead by offering single-player mode and making it easy to set up a private server.
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“It’s not my place to tell them how to design their game but they should be assessing all the risk up front, that’s what safety by design is all about,” Ms Inman Grant said. “It is incumbent upon the online platforms to treat this like an arms race.”
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“Not everyone is aware as I am but I feel like I was a bit lax,” Ms Dunn said. “She’s not going to be happy but I’m just going to explain that it’s not suitable until you’re 13 or something.”
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