Roblox is one of the most popular children's games globally, but there are reports that it contains pornographic content.
Adapted from BBC Indonesia, Thursday (2/17/2022), in 2020, Roblox admitted to Bloomberg that two-thirds of all US children between 9-12 years old play this game.
Roblox itself allows users to create games and play together. It's a way to connect with other people in the digital world in real-time.
Players can make games in it using the available facilities. Unlike other traditional games, the content in this game is created by its users.
Despite being a very successful business model, this business is not free from problems.
There is a sex-content game on Roblox called "the condo," a user-generated space where people can talk about sex.
The avatars they create can also have virtual sex. In this game, the rules of Roblox are ignored.
Roblox admits they have a problem and has responded to this.
"We know there is a small percentage of users who are deliberately trying to break the rules," a spokeswoman told the BBC.
It is known that condos usually only go live for a short time, often less than an hour, before being discovered and blocked.
Roblox said they are continuously trying to make this condo unplayable, using manual and automatic systems.
"We perform a security review of every image, video, and audio file uploaded to Roblox, using a combination of human and machine detection," he said.
According to Larry Magid, President of ConnectSafely, a non-profit organization that raises awareness about child safety online, some explicit content got through. It's like playing cat and mouse.
"There are people who are trying hard to play with the system," said magid.
The condo is not a game to be found just like that, and players needed to search for it actively, making it difficult for people like Magid to track him down.
"Roblox is a very popular platform among children, and allows children under 13 to play, so it has a special responsibility to protect its users," he stressed.
What is most worrying is that children and adults have the potential to socialize together in these spaces. The game has an instant messaging feature, where users can talk to each other with everyone playing.