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"My first message would be, if you're not comfortable, don't let your kids be on Roblox. That sounds a little counter-intuitive, but I would always trust parents to make their own decisions," the company's director noted.

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[-] SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago

Ellie Gibson - from the Scummy Mummies podcast - said Mr Baszucki's message risked sounding "a bit of a get out".

"It's much easier said than done, especially when all their friends are playing it," she told the BBC.

That's wild to me. "Your platform isn't safe." "So don't let your kids use it." "But all their friends are on it!"

[-] Inucune@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Maybe talk to and raise your kids to think for themselves, while making sure they don't endanger themselves on the Internet?

There are plenty of things my friends were doing that I wasn't allowed to join in growing up.

[-] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I didn't have a phone until a few years after my peers because my mother knew damn well I'd go cause problems for the whole family if I was on the internet. Too social lol

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