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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Roblox for allegedly “deceiving parents” and “flagrantly ignoring” safety laws. It follows similar action Paxton has taken against “several Big Tech social media companies” and TikTok.
“I’m suing Roblox for putting pixel pedophiles and profits over the safety of Texas children,” Paxton wrote in a social media post. “We cannot allow platforms like Roblox to continue operating as digital playgrounds for predators where the well-being of our kids is sacrificed on the altar of corporate greed.”
In a press statement, Paxton expanded on this, writing he was suing Roblox Corporation, “a multi-billion-dollar company that operates one of the largest online gaming sites for children, for flagrantly ignoring state and federal online safety laws while deceiving parents about the dangers of its platform.”
Roblox is one of the biggest video game platforms in the world, and has seen enormous user numbers as a result of experiences such as Grow a Garden and Steal a Brainrot going viral. Paxton claimed that though Roblox markets itself as a safe space, it has become a “breeding ground for predators.”
“Children in Texas have been repeatedly exposed to sexually explicit content, exploitation, and grooming
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