Roblox (NYSE: RBLX — $28.1 billion) is a platform where millions of children, many between the ages of six and fourteen, play online. The Bear Cave

Problems at Roblox (RBLX) #4 - by Edwin Dorsey

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2024-10-03 15:30:04

Roblox (NYSE: RBLX — $28.1 billion) is a platform where millions of children, many between the ages of six and fourteen, play online. The Bear Cave believes Roblox is facilitating widespread child abuse across the United States including the mass production of child pornography, child kidnappings, and child physical abuse. In addition, The Bear Cave believes Roblox has potentially played a role in mass shooting events and may be used by foreign actors to spread antisemitism and terrorism.

In recent years, local news outlets have reported that predators have used Roblox to abuse hundreds of children. Here are a few examples:

In 2019, 29-year-old convicted pedophile Owain Thomas “groomed 150 children to engage in sexual activity using Roblox.” 60 of those children were under the age of 13 and in many cases Thomas used Roblox’s in-game currency, Robux, to solicit children. In one case Thomas “paid a 10-year-old victim 400 Robux to perform a sexual act while he watched him on a webcam.” A lawyer called the volume of abuse “possibly unprecedented.”

In September 2020, 48-year-old registered sex offender Clinton McElroy was arrested after convincing an eight-year-old girl “into sending sexually explicit videos in exchange for Robux.” McElroy “was previously convicted in 2018 of commercial sexual exploitation of a 14-year-old child.”