LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT) – Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin announced a lawsuit against Roblox Corporation and Discord Inc.
In a news release, Griffin accused the companies of “deliberate deception and reckless product design that transformed the internet’s most popular children’s gaming site into one of the most dangerous places online.”
Griffin said Roblox and Discord functioned together as a “two-stage predatory pipeline.”
“Roblox serves as the point of first contact, where predators pose as children, build trust, and groom victims. Discord serves as the escalation environment, where predators solicit explicit images, conduct sextortion, and, in dozens of documented cases, arrange in-person meetings that resulted in rape and other violent sexual assault.”
Griffin filed the lawsuit under the Arkansas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, Arkansas’s public nuisance law and common law unjust enrichment.
A spokesperson for Roblox issued the following statement regarding Griffin’s announcement saying, “Roblox is deeply committed to fostering a safe, healthy, and age-appropriate environment for our community. We strongly dispute the claims in this lawsuit filed by the Attorney General of Arkansas in Los Angeles County, California. It fundamentally misrepresents how our platform works and fails to recognize the extensive, proactive measures we are taking to set a new standard in online safety. 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 with similarly aged users by default. Additionally, we recently launched new age-based accounts that automatically match our youngest users to a dynamically updated catalog of content containing select games rated for their age group, 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 collaboratively with Attorney General Griffin to help keep kids safe online.”
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