Comment on Roblox gets banned indefinitely in Turkey over “child exploitation”

Banichan@dormi.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Kids make maps. Stuff in the maps is sold for Roblox bucks. Roblox bucks cost money to buy. The kid who makes the map gets the Roblox bucks, and can sell them. The problem is you only get 30% back when you sell a Roblox buck.

  So kids spend time making big maps and servers, buying ads, getting shoutouts on YouTube/whatever, and Roblox takes a 70% cut from all of it

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  • Banichan@dormi.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sounds like a normal business that gives kids a chance to make money.

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    • Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Its exploiting child labor and the impulsive brain chemistry of adolescence.

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      • themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Fair enough, but couldn’t the same be said about YouTube? They also take the biggest cut of the ad money for creators.

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      • Banichan@dormi.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “labor” 😂

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    • emuspawn@orbiting.observer ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The children yearn for the mines

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    • mashbooq@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A normal business, yes. Normal businesses are highly and cruelly exploitative, which is why we decided 80 years ago that children, at the very least, should be protected from them.

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    • Summzashi@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Can’t tell if you’re kidding.

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  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Isn’t it more like 2%

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• Donut@leminal.space ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Read the article and find out

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  • Banichan@dormi.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just give me the broad strokes

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    • Donut@leminal.space ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Stop expecting handouts with 0 effort especially when the answer is one tap away.

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      • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Jeeze, he must work for Roblox with that level of expected free labor…

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    • eratic@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lemme compile it all into a 20 second tiktok video

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• elgordino@fedia.io ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You could start with this People Make Games video from a couple of years ago. https://youtu.be/_gXlauRB1EQ?si=Ttg4-Bust1K-X-22

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  • Banichan@dormi.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I said explain. It’s this old school thing we used to do where we JUST TELL A PERSON SOMETHING

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    • Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I get what you are saying, and actually agree with out. But you don’t have to be an asshole about it. No one has the obligation to attend your tantrums.

      Children make games on Roblox (real games, the thing people do working in the industry), Roblox makes money off those games and pays close to nothing to the children. Therefore, exploits children.

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    • blackbelt352@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The video is an explanation, none of us want to regurgitate multiple 30-45 minute videos that already explain exactly what your asking.

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    • mke@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sometimes, there are already resources explaining better than we could. And although I’m unsure if this case qualifies, there are definitely topics that can’t be reduced to a few sentences. Thus, a reputable link is often worth more to both sides: it saves the explainer time and effort while informing the target far better.

      If you don’t want to engage with the content, I believe there are better ways to go about it than being rude to people who were likely trying to help.

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    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The video is an explanation.

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Obvious bad faith argument

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    • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No we didn’t. Telling people something was invented in 2016 by russian bots in Kamchatka on Twitter.

      Watch the video or feed it into ChatGPT for a summary or Google a pre-existing summary.

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      • Banichan@dormi.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Get a life, guy

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• eskimofry@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You must not be just a troll… but a mountain troll

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  These guys explain it well, let them:

  Investigation: How Roblox is Exploiting Young Gamers

  Roblox Pressured us To Delete our Video. So we Dug Deeper.

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• AstralPath@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s not hard to use a search engine.

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