A 48-year old man recently coerced an eight-year-old girl into sending explicit videos, and a couple of years ago, a hack allowed the avatar of a seven-year-old girl to be raped in a game. On the other hand, the platform is constantly playing catchup trying to take down highly sexual rooms, and even worse, deal with multiple incidents of more direct child predation. Roblox is complicated - on one hand, it encourages and inspires creativity from users, from game design to avatar skin creation, in order to create the kind of whimsical experiences where you can receive hugs from giant floating heads. In its filing with the SEC, the company included several entry points of sexual predation on children as a risk to its business. ![]() Adults on the platform generally remain insular to friends and family, but Roblox must also play whack-a-mole with inappropriate interactions between adults and children. ![]() ![]() The platform is particularly popular among minors, but its user-generated games come from an array of demographics. On Thursday, game platform Roblox filed to go public.
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