Texas sues Roblox, accusing the platform of failing to protect children from predators

[Alfonso Maruccia]

What just happened? Roblox is facing renewed legal scrutiny for allegedly failing to adequately protect its youngest users. Authorities claim the platform has become a hotspot for inappropriate activity, and multiple US state Attorneys General are now pursuing legal action against the widely popular gaming service.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton recently filed a lawsuit against Roblox Corporation, alleging that the multi-billion-dollar company operates a dangerously unsafe online platform. According to Paxton, Roblox hosts one of the largest gaming communities for children but is flagrantly disregarding state and federal laws designed to protect young users.

Paxton said that Roblox is essentially "putting pixel pedophiles and profits over the safety of Texas children."

The lawsuit also accuses the company of misleading parents about the risks present on the platform, undermining assurances that children could safely explore their creativity online.

BREAKING: I'm suing Roblox for putting pixel pedophiles and profits over the safety of Texas children.

We cannot allow platforms like Roblox to continue operating as digital playgrounds for predators where the well-being of our kids is sacrificed on the altar of corporate greed. pic.twitter.com/Jj2kHEJM75

– Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) November 6, 2025

Conversely, the Texas Attorney General said that children using Roblox have repeatedly been exposed to sexually explicit content and exploitation attempts. Paxton alleges that adult players are grooming young users, while Roblox has prioritized its profit prospects over the safety of Texas children.

"Roblox must do more to protect kids from sick and twisted freaks hiding behind a screen. Any corporation that enables child abuse will face the fill and unrelenting force of the law," the AG stated.

Paxton also noted that his office has previously taken legal action against other Big Tech and social media companies, including TikTok, for similar reasons. Texas legislators have attempted – so far unsuccessfully – to block underage users from accessing social media platforms. However, the newly signed App Store Accountability Act now requires major app stores to implement enhanced age-verification measures.

Meanwhile, a Roblox spokesperson said the new lawsuit is based on misrepresentations and sensationalism. The company, the spokesperson added, shares Paxton's commitment to child safety online, which is why it is increasing measures designed to protect younger players. Roblox plans to extensively use AI technology to detect dangerous behavior on the platform and develop new solutions to more reliably estimate players' ages from facial features.

Despite these efforts, Roblox continues to face lawsuits and controversy. Earlier this year, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill sued the company, alleging that the platform had become a haven for child exploitation and sexual predators. Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki stated that parents concerned about their children's online activity should consider restricting their access to the platform.

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Texas sues Roblox, accusing the platform of failing to protect children from predators

 

[Kirby1]

From a legal perspective I don't get how a game that has social interaction being popular among kids means there is a legal aspect about how the game management is supposed to handle kids. I'm not saying robox doesn't have issues, but it seems like it would be like saying the local playground is popular among kids and therefore child predators show up, and the park management is supposed to be policing the park instead of the actual authorities.

It seems like from a legal perspective, Roblox could just say they have no legal responsibility to do anything about this and parents should keep an eye on their kids.

 

[Theinsanegamer]

Sure took them long enough. Roblox has been a plague for years, ignoring reports and banning anyone who tried to expose their behavior, all while they make bank on child labor.

From a legal perspective I don't get how a game that has social interaction being popular among kids means there is a legal aspect about how the game management is supposed to handle kids. I'm not saying robox doesn't have issues, but it seems like it would be like saying the local playground is popular among kids and therefore child predators show up, and the park management is supposed to be policing the park instead of the actual authorities.

It seems like from a legal perspective, Roblox could just say they have no legal responsibility to do anything about this and parents should keep an eye on their kids.

Roblox has a long history of blatantly ignoring reports or predatory behavior from individuals known to be preying on kids, knowingly spreading degeneracy and sexual RP to minors, attempting to get their persona details, ece.

To use your park analogy, this would be like the park service being served information about known predators sitting at their park trying to pick up children, with both photo and video evidence, Actively seeing these people in said park, and the park service choosing to ignore it, not contacting the police, and so on.

 

[noel24]

So, this is Texas, guy must be Republican, another lawyer that sees a problem with video games, but probably has no problem with the fact that His President befriended a ped*phile, and now trying to desperately cover It?

 

[Theinsanegamer]

So, this is Texas, guy must be Republican, another lawyer that sees a problem with video games, but probably has no problem with the fact that His President befriended a ped*phile, and now trying to desperately cover It?

Roblox has a long, storied history of protecting predators and illegal activity while trying to silence anyone who alerts the public of this issue

This has absolutely nothing to do with Trump or Epstein.

 

[pnntmp]

Kids are to be protected from their parents.
It should be mom and dad looking after their kids, not political figures looking after cheap popularity.

 

[RudyBob]

Protecting children is something everyone agrees with but 90% don't do it

 

[Theinsanegamer]

Kids are to be protected from their parents.
It should be mom and dad looking after their kids, not political figures looking after cheap popularity.

Yes, it is the parents responsibility to raise their child and make sure they are not spending all day being groomed online.

That doesn't mean a corporation should be allowed to do whatever they want. If Roblox took any amount of these reports seriously, they wouldn't be receiving this kind of backlash and legal trouble.

But even a token effort is too much for them.

 

[Puiu]

We also need the Epstein files.

 

[noel24]

Roblox has a long, storied history of protecting predators and illegal activity while trying to silence anyone who alerts the public of this issue

This has absolutely nothing to do with Trump or Epstein.

Well, cannot say I have a reason to disbelieve You, but I checked this Paxton on Wikipedia, and He's a friend with Trump, so hypocricy is There, running deep.

 

[Theinsanegamer]

Well, cannot say I have a reason to disbelieve You, but I checked this Paxton on Wikipedia, and He's a friend with Trump, so hypocricy is There, running deep.

We have a term for this.

Trump Derangement Syndrome.

This has nothing to do with Trump, or Republicans. Your own point also works directly against you, because if we want to talk hypocrisy, how about all the Democrats crying out for the Epstein list that are perfectly fine letting Roblox groomers run free with no consequences? All this talk of protecting children, yet they refuse to take action against a platform that demonstrably puts children in danger?

That's why this is an incredibly stupid argument.

 

[noel24]

We have a term for this.

Trump Derangement Syndrome.

This has nothing to do with Trump, or Republicans. Your own point also works directly against you, because if we want to talk hypocrisy, how about all the Democrats crying out for the Epstein list that are perfectly fine letting Roblox groomers run free with no consequences? All this talk of protecting children, yet they refuse to take action against a platform that demonstrably puts children in danger?

That's why this is an incredibly stupid argument.

But I'm not american? I'm just watching US media and seeing things You people seems not wanna notice?
We have a term for this.
Stockholm Syndrome.

No offence, but unless You belong to the group of american billionaires, We are all being played by rich and politicians.
I just mentioned that politician claiming to save some children from predators, befriends another politician that himself would like to silence other predators' victims, for His personal gain.
Want to make It argument about Democrat/Republican, when I'm neither? OK.

 

[Theinsanegamer]

But I'm not american?

Never said you were?

I'm just watching US media and seeing things You people seems not wanna notice?
We have a term for this.
Stockholm Syndrome.

That's not what Stockholm Syndrome is.

No offence, but unless You belong to the group of american billionaires, We are all being played by rich and politicians.

Has nothing to do with your previous comments nor the story.

I just mentioned that politician claiming to save some children from predators, befriends another politician that himself would like to silence other predators' victims, for His personal gain.

You made this about their political affiliation, accusing them of hypocrisy, which is in itself massively hypocritical.

Want to make It argument about Democrat/Republican, when I'm neither? OK.

Remind me why you keep bringing up Trump and Republicans if you are not trying to turn it into a left/right wing argument?

 

[noel24]

Never said you were?

That's not what Stockholm Syndrome is.

Has nothing to do with your previous comments nor the story.

You made this about their political affiliation, accusing them of hypocrisy, which is in itself massively hypocritical.

Remind me why you keep bringing up Trump and Republicans if you are not trying to turn it into a left/right wing argument?

You cannot dissect My answer into smaller, pieces, of course It will loose meaning. Stockholm syndrome is totally about siding with reasoning of people that hurt You - in this case politicians and billionaires. I never made it about Paxton and Trump side of fence, just Texas is Republican, so Their Attorney General will be associated with Trump, who is Republican too. At the same time, both are representing two sides of the child exploitation, one is a defender, the other is a perpetrator.

 

[BobHome]

If you're online, you're unsafe. Period.

 

[candle86]

From a legal perspective I don't get how a game that has social interaction being popular among kids means there is a legal aspect about how the game management is supposed to handle kids. I'm not saying robox doesn't have issues, but it seems like it would be like saying the local playground is popular among kids and therefore child predators show up, and the park management is supposed to be policing the park instead of the actual authorities.

It seems like from a legal perspective, Roblox could just say they have no legal responsibility to do anything about this and parents should keep an eye on their kids.

Organizations do go on Roblox to catch predators, and then Roblox bans the organizations and leaves the predators alone, thats the issue.

Roblox actively protects predators when its made aware of them. If a peeping tom was spotted at the park, the police would arrest him, if a predator is spotted in Roblox, they will ban the person reporting the predator for harassing behavior and breaking the TOS, instead of taking action on the real bad guy. I fully support my State in this endeavor.

 

[candle86]

You cannot dissect My answer into smaller, pieces, of course It will loose meaning. Stockholm syndrome is totally about siding with reasoning of people that hurt You - in this case politicians and billionaires. I never made it about Paxton and Trump side of fence, just Texas is Republican, so Their Attorney General will be associated with Trump, who is Republican too. At the same time, both are representing two sides of the child exploitation, one is a defender, the other is a perpetrator.

there is zero credible proof that trump was ever a supporter, we have evidence that when he found out he banned Epstine, we have evidence that he gave states evidence and assisted in the investigation, and we have evidence that under Trump's 1st and 2nd terms we've had an increase in arrests of human sex traffickers than under previous administrations, but go ahead keep drinking that leftist koolaid without using that critical thinking god gifted you with.

 

[torvuswalds]

there is zero credible proof that trump was ever a supporter, we have evidence that when he found out he banned Epstine, we have evidence that he gave states evidence and assisted in the investigation, and we have evidence that under Trump's 1st and 2nd terms we've had an increase in arrests of human sex traffickers than under previous administrations, but go ahead keep drinking that leftist koolaid without using that critical thinking god gifted you with.

Are you sure about that? Really want to just jump on that bandwagon saying he isn't? Kind of like his repeated dodging of talking about Epstein and the investigation besides now calling it a "democrat scam" when he said he would release them prior to the election, are you just going to dig your head in the sand and ignore this? The only logical explanation here is that YOU lack the critical thinking here bud.

Unrelated but still keeping to my point, had a conversation recently with a MAGA coworker who said that Trump was doing everything he could to get SNAP benefits released, then when I showed them that Trump is using the supreme court to BLOCK the benefits from being released he just looked at it and called it "fake news".

 

[lonetac]

Are you sure about that? Really want to just jump on that bandwagon saying he isn't? Kind of like his repeated dodging of talking about Epstein and the investigation besides now calling it a "democrat scam" when he said he would release them prior to the election, are you just going to dig your head in the sand and ignore this? The only logical explanation here is that YOU lack the critical thinking here bud.

Unrelated but still keeping to my point, had a conversation recently with a MAGA coworker who said that Trump was doing everything he could to get SNAP benefits released, then when I showed them that Trump is using the supreme court to BLOCK the benefits from being released he just looked at it and called it "fake news".

Every reasonable person on the planet knows Trump is a pedo and is guilty. Its not really a question of "if". Its "how much" and I would be willing to bet egregious.

That being said, and I cant believe I am about to say this, I actually agree with insanegamer and candle for the very first time.

Roblox is a stain on the gaming community. Actually going out of their way to hide, cover up and ignore child safety concerns. I am familiar with quite a few of these stories and its pretty egregious as well. Screenshots, videos, calls of people proving and showing active child exploitation sent to authorities and then Roblox bans the people sending them, not the actual perpetrators. Its disgusting and the leadership team has been caught red handed several times mishandling these things. When you start digging into Roblox, there is a serious problem here.

As much as I hate Texas, this is a good move and the right course of action.

 

[torvuswalds]

Every reasonable person on the planet knows Trump is a pedo and is guilty. Its not really a question of "if". Its "how much" and I would be willing to bet egregious.

That being said, and I cant believe I am about to say this, I actually agree with insanegamer and candle for the very first time.

Roblox is a stain on the gaming community. Actually going out of their way to hide, cover up and ignore child safety concerns. I am familiar with quite a few of these stories and its pretty egregious as well. Screenshots, videos, calls of people proving and showing active child exploitation sent to authorities and then Roblox bans the people sending them, not the actual perpetrators. Its disgusting and the leadership team has been caught red handed several times mishandling these things. When you start digging into Roblox, there is a serious problem here.

As much as I hate Texas, this is a good move and the right course of action.

Dont get it twisted, I absolutely agree that Roblox deserves to go down. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. I recently had to intervene with my sister who lets my 6 year old niece play Roblox completely un-attended. Lucky for me she is reasonable and listened.

 

[scavengerspc]

We also need the Epstein files.

Johnson has no choice but to swear in Grijalva today, so they are coming soon.

 

[lonetac]

Dont get it twisted, I absolutely agree that Roblox deserves to go down. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. I recently had to intervene with my sister who lets my 6 year old niece play Roblox completely un-attended. Lucky for me she is reasonable and listened.

Get what twisted? There is nothing twisted about what I said.

I am agree'ing with them on Roblox and you about Trump and Epstein. Im not twisting anything. Im just getting this back on topic.

 

[candle86]

Are you sure about that? Really want to just jump on that bandwagon saying he isn't? Kind of like his repeated dodging of talking about Epstein and the investigation besides now calling it a "democrat scam" when he said he would release them prior to the election, are you just going to dig your head in the sand and ignore this? The only logical explanation here is that YOU lack the critical thinking here bud.

Unrelated but still keeping to my point, had a conversation recently with a MAGA coworker who said that Trump was doing everything he could to get SNAP benefits released, then when I showed them that Trump is using the supreme court to BLOCK the benefits from being released he just looked at it and called it "fake news".

Well considering he has released what actually still exists and considering those files are held at the New York field office that was rebuilding January of this year was shredding and burning documents honestly it's more likely that the bid administration was destroying them the actual files.

What we do know is we have testimony verifiable testimony that Trump was not involved That's what we do know so far only one person has ever come forward and said otherwise and her testimony was withdrawn and considered highly a suspect by both sides of the aisle because her story kept changing and had inconsistencies in it way beyond what a normal recollection would be.

But we do have verifiable reports from other people that were in his circle The Trump was never involved and I can assure you that if there was some heart proof that Trump was involved The Democrats would have released it during the bind administration simply to tank Trump's presidential bid you can bet you they would have done that to assume they wouldnt is just foolish.

As for food stamps quite frankly I don't care but I really really just do not care I seen way too many people abusing the food stamps I think the entire program should be scrapped and a new system set up where you have to come and once a week to receive food that's handed to you while verifying job search as well as providing your bank statement once a week.

 

[scavengerspc]

Well considering he has released what actually still exists and considering those files are held at the New York field office that was rebuilding January of this year was shredding and burning documents honestly it's more likely that the bid administration was destroying them the actual files.

What we do know is we have testimony verifiable testimony that Trump was not involved That's what we do know so far only one person has ever come forward and said otherwise and her testimony was withdrawn and considered highly a suspect by both sides of the aisle because her story kept changing and had inconsistencies in it way beyond what a normal recollection would be.

But we do have verifiable reports from other people that were in his circle The Trump was never involved and I can assure you that if there was some heart proof that Trump was involved The Democrats would have released it during the bind administration simply to tank Trump's presidential bid you can bet you they would have done that to assume they wouldnt is just foolish.

As for food stamps quite frankly I don't care but I really really just do not care I seen way too many people abusing the food stamps I think the entire program should be scrapped and a new system set up where you have to come and once a week to receive food that's handed to you while verifying job search as well as providing your bank statement once a week.

The Epstein estate released emails, and some were brought to light yesterday and today.
It's politics, so we know the future emails will be more and more damning.

House Oversight Committee Releases Jeffrey Epstein Email Correspondence, Raising Questions About White House Coverup of Epstein Files | The U.S. House Committee on Oversight

The Official U.S. Congressional website of The Democrat Oversight Committee

oversightdemocrats.house.gov

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/12/nx-s1-5605582/epstein-files-release-trump-email-grijalva-massie

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/12/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump-emails-00647447

We all knew trump was there and in the files we are soon to see because Bondi told him he was in there, among others:

https://www.wsj.com/politics/justice-department-told-trump-name-in-epstein-files-727a8038?msockid=21ab59a456f2663e1e364f335787678b

I do feel safe saying that, surprisingly, there are very few or no Democrats in there.
We know trump, and if there were, he would be telling any news agency he could find, and would have a megaphone screaming that from the roof of the Capitol. Regardless of his involvement.

You know what brother? No matter which side any of us are on,
I have a strong feeling we are in for some very dark times.

 

[jeffbert]

Another tech subject has wandered into politics; has gone from State to national, for no reason but rabid hatred for one particular politician.