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As a panel of expert witnesses, bring in more 8-year-olds to demonstrate how to play Roblox. Add a mandatory checkbox that includes an attestation stating that the company is criminally liable and a requirement that these children must kick the entire C-suite to death.
Let's see how binding check boxes still are, and to what degree minors are expected to process and follow their commitments.
Is it their stance? The article says the mother “placed parental controls” on the child’s account. This means the mother had an account too and agreed to the terms as well.
Minors cannot be signatories to a contract. Nothing the parent does can change that.
If someone agrees to unlawful contract terms, those terms have no legal force, and depending on the wording of the contract, it could potentially invalidate the whole contract (though there's usually fine print about separability that deals with that eventuality).
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Just argue that RoBlox is a platform that makes kids trans and Gay and Roblox would be down in a week.
I'll click on your stupid little agreement button to play my mindless game and I still deny all of your inane fine-print that I didn't read anyways. If shit like this is legally binding then it's already game over.
Roblox digging their own grave who would have thunk
Sounds like she was groomed by 764/o9a types. Typical modus operandi.
IMO they’re nothing short of a continuation and expansion of the original MKUltra. This time to horrify the public into passing mandatory online ID laws which would be very useful for the agency. That and they create a pre-selected group of amoral sadist monsters the agency can use for various purposes after making contact.
They’re aided by these profit hungry tech corps. Though it’s astonishing and a serious tech literacy problem that the mother let her have a discord account when those are not moderated and not for kids. These tech companies should all go bankrupt but they’ll all have us scanning IDs for everything soon enough instead. Problem is these o9a types have lots of groomers who are underage teens themselves so such measures don’t really put a stop to it.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted; this is far from being a fringe idea. Rather, it is well established and being studied. (Look at the About pages for an idea of who is behind research such as this.) To extrapolate that it is being done for political gain is no far leap, lol.
Roblox is a known nexus for this kind of activity (pick one, lol) and why wouldn't it be? It's one of the places where all the children are there and unsupervised.