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Re:Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children by asciii on Thursday March 30, 2023 @10:50AM (#35373511)
> I surprised her back when I did user-testing

Wait till she gets tough PR reviews.

This block is ugly, and our team does not like looking at it :P

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Re:Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children by samstave on Thursday March 30, 2023 @11:32AM (#35374312)
AND This damn kid WORKS FROM HOME every darn day and doesnt even let me know on Slack!
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Re:Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children by qikInNdOutReply on Thursday March 30, 2023 @11:47AM (#35374588)
Remember that robblox investigation, were they interviewed that 12 year old that already talked like a burned out developer, feeling cheated out of the revenue. The children yearn for the mines..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ

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Re:Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children by asciii on Thursday March 30, 2023 @03:04PM (#35377478)
Yikes...

Scratch and Roblox conspiracy to create an army of child developers? :O

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Re:Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children by Wowfunhappy on Thursday March 30, 2023 @03:50PM (#35377950)
Please do not conflate Scratch and Roblox!

Scratch is open source software created by a nonprofit foundation to promote education and creativity.

Roblox exploits children for profit in a way I quite literally believe should be considered a violation of child labor laws.

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Re:Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children by asciii on Friday March 31, 2023 @09:41AM (#35387030)
> I quite literally believe they are violating child labor laws.

Couldn't agree more the more I learn about them.

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Re:Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children by Wowfunhappy on Friday March 31, 2023 @02:13PM (#35390989)
I would actually be very interested to hear from a lawyer—or at least someone with legal knowledge—why Roblox hasn't been prosecuted for this. These children are creating value for the company, and they're being compensated via a currency which can be converted into dollars. How is that not payment for work?

If Robux could only be converted into Amazon gift cards, I would still argue that was a labor violation, but I could at least understand why the case was murky.

Can Uber hire 16-year-olds to drive for them without a work permit as long as they're paid in special UbiCoins which are converted into dollars later?

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Re:Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children by bitdivision on Thursday March 30, 2023 @04:46PM (#35378616)
The part in question: https://youtu.be/_gXlauRB1EQ?t=827
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