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Can an 8-year-old waive their rights to sue a company by clicking a box?

That's the stance of Roblox, an online gaming platform that bills itself as a digital playground.

The argument comes as the $41-billion company is embroiled in a lawsuit with the family of a Northern Kentucky child whose death by suicide, her mother says, is related to use of the platform.

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[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Children aren't legally allowed to enter into contracts. How are their lawyers this stupid? Are they just getting their arguments from chatbots?

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They aren't stupid - they're stalling, dragging the trial out in an effort to coax the plaintiff into a settlement or running out of money so they'll have no choice but to drop the suit. It's standard issue corporate evil.

[–] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Also exhaust them mentally. You can only get reminded of the court case about your 8 yo child's death so many times before you break

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 day ago

They probably have fine print that says children must have their parent's permission to sign up, and think that covers them

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Likely a mix of all 3 things. (Both stupid lawyers using chatbots and a special extra helping of techbro leadership that is hellbent on "challenging the paradigm" or some other shit)