It seems like just yesterday that we reported on a government-mandated Roblox ban across the entire country of Qatar. Probably because it was just yesterday. Now, the State of Louisiana is taking a different sort of drastic measure by filing a "Child Protection" lawsuit against the gargantuan gaming platform which puts Roblox's dubiously weak safety measures in the legal crosshairs.
Louisiana State Attorney General Liz Murrill filed the 42-page lawsuit on August 14, and while it's worth reading through (or at least skimming), we'll cover the broad strokes. Suffice it to say, Roblox Corporation won't be pleased.
The lawsuit doesn't mince words. Not that lawsuits ever do, but still. "Defendant's deliberate failure to implement effective safety measures to protect child users from well-documented predatory threats, along with its ongoing failure to warn parents and children of the foreseeable dangers posed by its platform," just one of the six paragraphs under the 'Nature of the Action' category reads, "has directly facilitated the widespread sexual exploitation of minors and inflicted severe, lasting harm upon the children of Louisiana."
Nor does Murrill's filing lack directly-stated instances. Referencing a search warrant against a suspected predator from just last month, the document...
