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Roblox\u2019s community standards also prohibit content that recreates or imitates real-world sensitive events, including acts of mass violence, and material glorifying terrorist or extremist individuals and organisations. Yet, such experiences have evidently been available on the platform.<\/p>\n
The platform should explain how they passed moderation, how they could be found, whether they were recommended and what happened when users reported them. If copies reappear, the company should show how quickly it detects them.<\/p>\n
Several governments, such as Russia and Turkey, have at various points blocked Roblox but that does not mean children in those countries became safer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A fall in Roblox use would be easy to count and would tell us little about whether young people had moved to other games, secondary accounts or smaller services with weaker safeguards. The risk is presenting a ban as though the underlying problem had been removed.<\/p>\n
So, what can Singapore do?<\/p>\n
At the moment, Singapore\u2019s Code of Practice for Online Safety \u2013 introduced by the IMDA in July 2023 \u2013 applies to six designated social media services: Facebook, HardwareZone, Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube. It requires these designated social media services to curb the spread of harmful content, especially among younger users.<\/p>\n
Roblox, however, is not among them. The government has separately said it is studying whether additional safeguards are needed for online gaming.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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