Apparently people can't do math and give in to stupid ideas like Roblox has a child exploitation problem based on raw numbers.
Even people advocating against this stupidity. GamersNexus stated that Roblox has a problem and stated there are 13,000 sexual incidents on the platform a year. Without context this sounds like a problem, but it's not. There are 1.4 billion users on the platform! That is 0.000000867% risk factor. Your kid is far more likely to be hit by a car: 0.0001% and it is about as likely that they'll be struck by lightning. If you can't do math that amounts to a near ZERO percent chance your kid will encounter a predator.
Based on this logic every kid should be locked in a padded room and only released once they turn "adult" (?28? maybe... brain isn't "fully developed" until then). Yes, this is stupid, but these advocates of this kind of shit are the real threat and the real extremists. They think even one incident is far too many as if there is some magical way to stop all threats if only we pass another dumb law (that often only endangers children, or worse everyone). They advocate based on fear and rely on stupid people (those in 'society') not being able to think for themselves.
It's long past time we started advocating to re-introduce 'danger' into the lives of 'children'.
In the 80s getting cut up- falling off a bike- or dealing with a bully was said to 'build character'. I certainly wouldn't go quite that far, but there is some element of the mentality that you need to let kids live and learn and experience the world for themself that makes sense. It's how we learn and grow as humans. Not doing it leads to bad decisions, bigger more prolific problems; loss of life savings to Nigerian princes.
Is there something about being a libertarian that requires you to cut out part of your brain with a knife?
>implying 1.4 billion users are real people
>implying the C-suite execs at roblox haven't spent years protecting pedophiles
>implying there aren't thousands of spam/real accounts designed to target children and sexually abuse them, which easily find new accounts within minutes
>implying the roblox company hasn't made legal threats against Schlep, who was abused as a kid on the platform and wants to help law enforcement target pedophiles
Truly, what is your point?
@Hephaestic @mr_penguin I just don't like how politicians are using this game as an example on why we need to lockdown the Internet to protect the children.
Throughout the history of online games directed towards kids (Habbo, Club Penguin, Millsberry, Neopets, etc), all of the sudden, this is a problem and we need to introduce age verification. I've played some of those games growing up, and even knew kids who played those as well, and stories about pedos on them only happened once in a blue moon. Normally, it was some kid who didn't learn the lesson of not giving personal info to strangers online or just not talk to strangers online, period.
@xianc78 @Hephaestic @mr_penguin the internet is different than it used to be... Sadly. So is our society just in general. It's all far worse and more widespread than it was in 2005.
@beardalaxy @xianc78 @Hephaestic
For sure. I'm not pro-50's - 80's style parenting, but modern 'parenting' is probably worse.
"Safety" is overrated, but that doesn't mean you need to take your kid to the woodshed either.
There is something in-between regular beatings and corporal punishment and keeping your kid inside for fear of someone kidnapping your kid. The kidnapping by a stranger is statistically rare and most of us who survived the 50-80's are better off as adults than those whom were been over the last two or so decades.