{"id":5064,"date":"2025-08-17T00:11:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T00:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/roblox-cracks-down-on-its-user-created-content-following-multiple-child-safety-lawsuits\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T00:11:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T00:11:43","slug":"roblox-cracks-down-on-its-user-created-content-following-multiple-child-safety-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/roblox-cracks-down-on-its-user-created-content-following-multiple-child-safety-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Roblox cracks down on its user-created content following multiple child safety lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Following a wave of lawsuits alleging that Roblox doesn&rsquo;t provide a safe environment for its underage users, the gaming platform made a series of sweeping updates to its policies. To address recent concerns, Roblox published a post on its website detailing these major changes, including restricting all unrated experiences, which is what Roblox calls its user-generated games, to the developer or those actively working with them. Roblox said this change will roll out in the coming months, representing a big shift from its previous policy that allowed users 13 or older to access unrated experiences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">To further prevent any inappropriate behavior, any &ldquo;social hangout&rdquo; experiences that depict private spaces, like bedrooms or bathrooms, will be limited to ID-verified users who are 17 or older. Roblox will also restrict social hangout games that mostly take place in those previously-mentioned private spaces or adult-only places, like bars or clubs, to users who are at least 17 and have been ID-verified. To assist with the new rules, Roblox will roll out a new tool that automatically detects &ldquo;violative scenes,&rdquo; or more simply, user activity that goes against the rules. According to Roblox&rsquo;s new policies, a server that hits enough violations will automatically get taken down and will have to work with the Roblox team to adjust the experience and get it back online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">These policy changes come after several lawsuits were filed against Roblox that claim the game doesn&rsquo;t protect its younger users. In response to the lawsuit filed by Louisiana&rsquo;s attorney general, Roblox wrote in a separate post that it works to block any efforts at exploitative behavior and constantly enhances its moderation approaches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">&ldquo;Any assertion that Roblox would intentionally put our users at risk of exploitation is simply untrue,&rdquo; the company statement read. &ldquo;No system is perfect and bad actors adapt to evade detection, including efforts to take users to other platforms, where safety standards and moderation practices may differ.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Roblox cracks down on its user-created content following multiple child safety lawsuits<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a wave of lawsuits alleging that Roblox doesn&rsquo;t provide a safe environment for its underage users, the gaming platform made a series of sweeping updates to its policies. To address recent concerns, Roblox published a post on its website detailing these major changes, including restricting all unrated experiences, which is what Roblox calls its&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/roblox-cracks-down-on-its-user-created-content-following-multiple-child-safety-lawsuits\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Roblox cracks down on its user-created content following multiple child safety lawsuits&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}