Roblox alleges that, but he denies it. Is there any public evidence against him? There is ample public evidence of malfeasance from Roblox, so their word alone is worth less than dirt.
Regardless of a persons thoughts on Roblox - original comment is not wrong
17. In the days leading up to RDC 2021, Defendant Simon engaged his followers on
Discord, glamorizing the April 3, 2018 active shooter and murder at YouTube headquarters in
San Bruno, California and threatening/taunting a copycat act of terrorism at Roblox headquarters
in nearby San Mateo, California. Defendant Simon wrote to his followers to “wait until
[someone] does it to Roblox.”
18. Then, during RDC 2021, Defendant Simon publicly posted a terrorist bomb threat
to his Twitter account, knowing that the threat was false: “BREAKING: San Francisco Police are
currently searching for notorious Islamic Extremist Julius Al Mohammad. If you see this
individual at RDC please call 911 immediately.” Defendant Simon posted an image below this
text purporting to depict the fictitious “Islamic Extremist” as having posted a YouTube video
titled “SOMEONE BLOW UP ROBLOX NOW!” Defendant Simon made related posts,
including: “Don’t Come to RDC Tomorrow.”
For some reason there is no transcript (auto generated from cc) and this is true for the last YouTube video I went to. Have YouTube stopped doing them?
I never know what to say when another parent tells me their kids play Roblox. As I understand it, it's mostly a casino for children, complete with its own currency, and it offloads most of the labor of content creation to the kids and then pays them in company scrip.
> As I understand it, it's mostly a casino for children, complete with its own currency, and it offloads most of the labor of content creation to the kids and then pays them in company scrip.
From what I understand, it's a sandbox which does encourage/facilitate those things, but is a flexible sandbox used in other ways as well. It seems generally toxic though, I've heard they've nurtured a culture of children bullying other children for having default/free skins and cosmetics (parallels to the fashion industry at large...)
I think you're right that it's something that can be used in good or bad ways, and the thrust of the argument is that there aren't the kind of safeguards you'd hope for to stop kids falling to one of the bad ways. Like how we keep kids out of Casinos (or used to at least, now we just ship casinos to kids in their FIFA games).
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[ 4.7 ms ] story [ 52.4 ms ] thread17. In the days leading up to RDC 2021, Defendant Simon engaged his followers on Discord, glamorizing the April 3, 2018 active shooter and murder at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California and threatening/taunting a copycat act of terrorism at Roblox headquarters in nearby San Mateo, California. Defendant Simon wrote to his followers to “wait until [someone] does it to Roblox.” 18. Then, during RDC 2021, Defendant Simon publicly posted a terrorist bomb threat to his Twitter account, knowing that the threat was false: “BREAKING: San Francisco Police are currently searching for notorious Islamic Extremist Julius Al Mohammad. If you see this individual at RDC please call 911 immediately.” Defendant Simon posted an image below this text purporting to depict the fictitious “Islamic Extremist” as having posted a YouTube video titled “SOMEONE BLOW UP ROBLOX NOW!” Defendant Simon made related posts, including: “Don’t Come to RDC Tomorrow.”
Can read the full complaint here: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/01/judges-order-slaps-ro...
I would also be worried if there were no auto generated transcripts; they help me as well.
I just skim the transcripts and almost never watch videos, which usually have too low a data rate.
From what I understand, it's a sandbox which does encourage/facilitate those things, but is a flexible sandbox used in other ways as well. It seems generally toxic though, I've heard they've nurtured a culture of children bullying other children for having default/free skins and cosmetics (parallels to the fashion industry at large...)
- People Make Games: Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ
- People Make Games: Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY
I think you're right that it's something that can be used in good or bad ways, and the thrust of the argument is that there aren't the kind of safeguards you'd hope for to stop kids falling to one of the bad ways. Like how we keep kids out of Casinos (or used to at least, now we just ship casinos to kids in their FIFA games).
Apparently, he posted a fake bomb threat which then caused police to interrupt a roblox community event.