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Re:Roblox intentionally blocking Linux with Wine in their ne... by hutzlibu on Monday April 24, 2023 @03:09AM (#35684512)
"As of August 2020, Roblox had over 164 million monthly active users, including more than half of all American children under 16" (wikipedia)

Some also say, that those parents who cut off their kids from their friends are bad parents.

Parenting is about compromises and pure and clean solution only rarely exists. So yes, roblox is bad, as is facebook, tiktok and co. but banning it all and isolating your children is maybe not the perfect solution either.

My kids are not yet in the age of that crap, but soon there will surely be tough decisions to be made.

So maybe be careful with judging someone as a "bad parent", before being in that position yourself.

Re:Roblox intentionally blocking Linux with Wine in their ne... by DonHopkins on Monday April 24, 2023 @03:31AM (#35684661)
Did you actually watch both of those videos in their entirety before posting that?

If you haven't yet, you may want to delete your comment out of shame after you do. Unless you have as little shame as a parent or care for your own children's wellbeing as do all the pedos and white supremacists and scammers operating on that platform.

You be you, but I'm sorry about your kids.

Re:Roblox intentionally blocking Linux with Wine in their ne... by hutzlibu on Monday April 24, 2023 @03:55AM (#35684817)
Nope, I did not. But read aweful stuff before about roblox and I think I said clearly that I think the plattform is crap and not that I have any intentions of hooking up my kids to it. My point was about moralist "judgement".

"Unless you have as little shame as a parent or care for your own children's wellbeing as do all the pedos and white supremacists and scammers operating on that platform."

So what about the rest of the internet and the real world? It is not exactly that they are free of those people.

Absolute protection means absolute isolation. So still my question: do you think it is good for kids, if all their friends meet on roblox and only they are not allowed and become isolated? Parenting in reality means compromises. So I do not know, how I will decide if I would come into that situation, but I know that it is always easier to judge from the outside. Or do you have kids in roblox age?

Re:Roblox intentionally blocking Linux with Wine in their ne... by jpambrun on Monday April 24, 2023 @06:36AM (#35685816)
When you have a kid of Roblox age (I assume you don't) you will feel the pressure from all other kids already playing. Your kid may even get a robux card at a birthday without your consent. If you pushback you will be the annoying parent and your kids social life will suffer. Then you will likely readjust your position.