OKLAHOMA CITY (KSWO) — Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is filing suit against the online game Roblox for endangering children and deceiving parents.
Drummond said despite Roblox’s public assurances to parents, the company has consistently placed corporate profit over child safety, allowing the platform to become a hunting ground for child predators.
According to the lawsuit, Roblox has allowed children as young as 5 to create accounts without parental knowledge and exchange messages with strangers on its platform.
Drummond released a statement saying, “Roblox marketed itself as a safe place for children but turned a blind eye as predators targeted and exploited minors on its platform. We must ensure Roblox is held accountable and Oklahoma families are protected.”
Roblox responds
In response to the lawsuit, Roblox Chief Safety Officer Matt Kaufman said he hopes to work with Drummond to protect children. However, he said he was disappointed in the lawsuit.
“We share Attorney General Drummond’s commitment to child online safety. With that said, we are disappointed that he has filed a lawsuit that both fundamentally misrepresents how Roblox works and fails to take into account the extensive, industry-leading proactive measures the company is taking to set a new standard in online safety.
Roblox has built a multilayered safety system that includes pioneering safeguards to help protect our users. We do not allow the exchange of images or videos in chat, and we deploy a combination of advanced AI-powered detection, human moderation and rigorous filters designed to prevent the exchange of personal information. Additionally, we do not encrypt communications, which provides more visibility to help keep our community safe.
As part of our ongoing work to strengthen user protections, Roblox recently became the first online gaming platform to require age checks for all users to access chat features so that younger users are limited to chatting only with peers by default. Additionally, this June, we will launch new age-based accounts that automatically place our youngest users in a partitioned environment, further aligning content access and parental controls with a user’s age.
When we identify violations of our rules we take swift action and work closely with law enforcement to help hold bad actors accountable. While no system can be perfect, we are constantly strengthening our user protections, and we look forward to working constructively with Attorney General Drummond to help keep kids safe online.”
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