Source: New York Post
Two major online safety groups are urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Roblox – claiming that the wildly popular video game platform is allowing sex predators to “groom” kids, among other harmful alleged activities. Fairplay and the National Center for Online Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) said Wednesday that Roblox’s voice and text chat features “are a source of substantial harm to children, facilitating predation and abuse by enabling adult contact with minors. ” In one shocking incident, a test account created by NCOSE researchers in October and registered to a 5-year-old was “immediately” granted access to “dating, romance and … voice chat experiences where the user could be connected to strangers online.
