Re:Roblox October Outage Postmortem
by ineedasername on Thursday January 20, 2022 @08:29PM
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I'm not sure either. Particularly how, even in the presence of any policies, they could police the system: Does YouTube send someone around to check on the Ryan's World kid and the work environment?
Even with child labor policies it doesn't seem like platforms would be much better at managing them than content moderation.
Re:Roblox October Outage Postmortem
by Wowfunhappy on Thursday January 20, 2022 @09:10PM
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Well, which is why I don't think Roblox should be allowed to pay children at all.
That seems like it would be far worse for the children in question than the current situation.
Re:Roblox October Outage Postmortem
by ineedasername on Friday January 21, 2022 @04:24PM
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A partial solution might be that games by developers without legal age verification can't utilize real money transactions via the Robux currency. That way Roblox isn't rewarded directly for it either.
...I guess I always assumed that the ones who were monetized had parental involvement. Does Youtube allow minors to do that themselves?
I don't understand how the stuff Robox does (and maybe Youtube?) doesn't run afoul of child labor laws...