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Roblox argues 8-year-old waived rights in wrongful death lawsuit (www.courier-journal.com)
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Can an 8-year-old waive their rights to sue a company by clicking a box?

That's the stance of Roblox, an online gaming platform that bills itself as a digital playground.

The argument comes as the $41-billion company is embroiled in a lawsuit with the family of a Northern Kentucky child whose death by suicide, her mother says, is related to use of the platform.

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[+] -6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

What do you all actually want here?

Age verification? She signed up for this service and others, lied about age, and got access to older kids content and the parents allowed her to sit on discord unmonitored.

Seriously instead of just bitching or not having nueted down Nintendo online services how do you expect companies to police unmonitored kids?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Wrong company to defend here. They know exactly what's going on and they encourage it cause it makes them buckets of cash.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I understand they suck. What do you think will make you happy without age verification?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Oh maybe monitoring chats for sex pests. Referring things to the cops when you see blatantly illegal things.

    Paying proper moderators.

    Not encouraging minors to code up games for pennies.

    You know, what any in person for-profit location would do to keep the place safe for kids.

    We keep pretending that just cause it happens on a computer, that there's nothing that can be done, but the root cause is that these people are so greedy that they're actually ENCOURAGING kids to get taken advantage of, instead of putting any effort into stopping it.

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