We either have a free, open and anonymous internet… or a dystopian identity-required-at-every-point-of-access, heavily moderated, hellscape.

Is your argument that kids spaces should be free and open spaces, because the only alternative is everything has to be age gated? If not, feel free to expand on what this has anything to do with how a service advertised to kids shouldn’t be treated differently than non kid-oriented services.

Cool, gotta get that Nazi propaganda into the countries smart enough to ban that shit, wouldn’t want people to think there was any sense left in the white house.

Roblox isn’t a daycare. It isn’t a school. It isn’t marketed to have any responsible adults online per number of players.

But it’s a platform marketed towards children, takes a cut of the shovelware that other kids make, and didn’t bother policing their platform seriously until recently. The fact that it’s a kids game that’s marketed to kids and they go after people reporting on the abuses that they let run rampant on their platform is just mental to me. I really hope Roblox gets taken to the cleaners for how they actively have fucked around and let their platform get to where it is.

“This isn’t a case of being inspired by something and building on it. It’s the opposite of that. It’s taking something that worked and making it worse. Is there even a goal here beyond ‘generating content?’”

The Sloptya Nadella way