(WSVN) - The popular children’s game Roblox is now facing multiple criminal subpoenas in Florida after concerns for child safety on the online platform continue to grow across the country.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier claims the website has allegedly allowed child abuse from online predators by not having users’ ages be verified and failed to moderate explicit content.
“Companies like Roblox have become breeding grounds for predators to get to and have access to our kids,” said Uthmeier.
Uthmeier claimed his office has arrested more than 1,000 child predators this year, with many of those investigations leading back to Roblox.
“These criminal subpoenas will enable us to gather more information for our prosecutors about the criminal activity taking place on Roblox’s platform,” said Uthmeier.
However, Roblox refutes those claims, stating that they have added protections for children, which includes prohibiting the sharing of images and videos in online chats, filters to help block the exchange of personal information and the implementation of age estimation for users.
“We take every case of harm extremely seriously. Any platform of our size, it draws bad actors and our job is to do the best that we possibly can to prevent anything from happening on our platform,” said Roblox Chief Safety Officer Matt Kaufman.
The company has faced intensifying scrutiny over protecting children online, including from the family of 15-year-old Ethan Dallas.
Dallas’ family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Roblox, claiming it failed to protect their son from a sexual predator leading to his suicide.
Roblox responded to Dallas’ family, saying it was “deeply saddened” by his death, but said it can’t comment on the ongoing litigation.
Florida is not the only state seeking legal action against the platform.
Officials in Louisiana and Kentucky are also suing Roblox, claiming they don’t do enough to protect kids.
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