{"id":32456,"date":"2025-11-26T06:49:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T06:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaming.news\/?post_type=news&#038;p=32456"},"modified":"2025-11-26T14:06:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:06:49","slug":"roblox-ceo-insists-platform-is-amazing-for-kids-amidst-bans-in-certain-countries-and-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/gaming.news\/news\/2025-11-26\/roblox-ceo-insists-platform-is-amazing-for-kids-amidst-bans-in-certain-countries-and-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Roblox CEO insists platform is amazing for kids amid lawsuits and bans"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"spgn__article__hero__news horizontal-wrapper vertical-wrapper\">\n\t\t<h1 class=\"spgn__article__hero__news__title wp-block-post-title\">Roblox CEO insists platform is amazing for kids amid lawsuits and bans<\/h1>\n\n<figure class=\"spgn__article__hero__news__image --with-bg wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" 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narrow\">\n\t\t<div class=\"spgn__article__content__main spgn__content\">\n\t\t<p><strong class=\"game\">Roblox<\/strong> CEO David Baszucki claims that the gaming platform is amazing for kids despite the company facing backlash regarding child safety and several lawsuits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baszucki made the claim on The New York Times\u2019 Hard Fork <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/21\/podcasts\/hardfork-roblox-child-safety.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">podcast<\/a>, where hosts Casey Newton and Kevin Roose questioned the CEO about Roblox\u2019s new policy to increase child safety and reduce predatory activity amid open investigations and over 20 lawsuits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roblox is currently facing lawsuits from various states, including <a href=\"https:\/\/gaming.news\/news\/2025-10-21\/florida-attorney-general-issues-criminal-subpoenas-to-roblox\/\">Florida<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gaming.news\/news\/2025-08-15\/roblox-sued-by-louisiana-attorney-general-for-allegedly-failing-to-protect-children-from-predators\/\">Louisiana<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gaming.news\/news\/2025-11-07\/roblox-sued-by-texas-attorney-general-for-allegedly-misleading-parents-on-child-safety-risks\/\">Texas<\/a>. The game was also recently <a href=\"https:\/\/gaming.news\/news\/2025-10-22\/roblox-banned-in-iraq-over-child-safety-concerns\/\">banned<\/a> in Iraq, citing concerns regarding child safety as one of its main reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd how do you think of the problem of predators on Roblox?\u201d Newton asked Baszucki. \u201cWe think of it not necessarily just as a problem but an opportunity as well &#8230; At the scale we\u2019re at \u2014 150 million daily actives, 11 billion hours a month \u2014 like, what is the best way to keep pushing this forward?\u201d Baszucki answered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-facade__wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:56.20%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<img \n\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"youtube-facade__img js-activate\" \n\t\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/XpIXRgMlPo4\/hqdefault.jpg\" \n\t\t\t\t\tsrcset=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/XpIXRgMlPo4\/hqdefault.jpg 658w, https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/XpIXRgMlPo4\/maxresdefault.jpg 1280w\" \n\t\t\t\t\tsizes=\"(min-width: 659px) 100vw, 100vw\"\n\t\t\t\t\tstyle=\"display:block;\"\n\t\t\t\t\talt=\"We Asked Roblox&#039;s C.E.O. 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It Got Tense. | EP 163\"\n\t\t\t\t\t><\/iframe>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt does not seem like predators are having that hard of a time getting around your filters &#8230; So, I\u2019m curious what\u2019s made you so confident that things are working?\u201d Newton asked. \u201cI don\u2019t want to comment on it,\u201d Baszucki said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s one of the primary things we\u2019re doing is trying to keep people on our platform.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t think you have a problem with predators on the platform,\u201d said Newton. \u201cI think we\u2019re doing an incredible job at innovating relative to the number of people on our platform and the hours, in really leaning into the future of how this is going to work,\u201d said Baszucki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-ceo-says-security-is-developing-on-pace\">CEO says security is developing on pace<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Baszucki described various ways the company can implement AI and checks to verify age, saying, \u201cWe have behavioral signals; we have photo ID upload signals; we have user-suggested age. But we\u2019re complementing that with a facial age estimation signal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One security measure Roblox already has is screening text with a filter; however, people have found ways to obfuscate this restriction by using a hashtag \u201cbecause that\u2019s how you blur out words that aren\u2019t supposed to be used,\u201d Newton said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe state of where we are now is primarily getting into the blocking of adversarial attempts to broach the filter and adversarial attempts to try to share PII [personally identifying information], which we\u2019re getting better and better at as well,\u201d said Baszucki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Newton then asked Baszucki, \u201cHow do you as the CEO &#8230; feel like we\u2019re applying the right number of resources and they have the right error rates and we\u2019re at a place where I\u2019m comfortable telling parents, \u2018Bring your kids to Roblox?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe see all of those metrics internally all the time. They\u2019re not publicly shared. We\u2019re watching filter rates. We\u2019re watching this rate. We\u2019re watching all of that rate. Those metrics constantly get better as we add more and more AI on top of it,\u201d said Baszucki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of the podcast, Roose asked Baszucki whether Roblox would be able to fix the safety issues plaguing the platform in a year, which is also the same time his kid would turn four. \u201cI\u2019m going to go more out of the box than that. Roblox is an amazing platform right now for your kid. 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