{"id":1684274,"date":"2022-10-11T19:07:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T23:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1684274"},"modified":"2022-10-11T19:08:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T23:08:38","slug":"roblox-says-policing-virtual-world-is-like-shutting-down-speakeasies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/roblox-says-policing-virtual-world-is-like-shutting-down-speakeasies\/","title":{"rendered":"Roblox says policing virtual world is like \u2018shutting down speakeasies\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Froblox-says-policing-virtual-world-is-like-shutting-down-speakeasies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1684274&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Dawn Chmielewski and Jeffrey Dastin<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters) -As online gaming platform Roblox Corp confronts a lawsuit alleging it enabled a California girl\u2019s exploitation, its chief scientist said finding dangerous content in the company\u2019s virtual world is nothing like spotting it in video. <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s such a challenge to moderate 3D,\u201d said Morgan McGuire in an interview at the Reuters Momentum conference in Austin on Tuesday. He had no comment on the recent lawsuit but said Roblox was built with safety and civility at the forefront.  <\/p>\n<p>San Mateo, Calif.-based Roblox is deploying bots to patrol user-generated games and press buttons to detect any dangerous content that players have disguised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is more like shutting down speakeasies,\u201d he said, referring to U.S. prohibition-era bars hiding from law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>BBC reported this year that users had created explicit private spaces, known as \u201ccondos,\u201d where people\u2019s digital avatars could engage in virtual sex.<\/p>\n<p>McGuire said the company is able to remove inappropriate content within minutes thanks to artificial intelligence software and moderators. What escapes scrutiny is not \u201chorrifically bad\u201d but more likely a terms violation, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Still, a lawsuit filed last week alleges that adult men on Roblox connected with a girl, who was born in 2009, and nudged her to sign up for Discord, Snap Inc\u2019s Snapchat and Meta Platforms Inc\u2019s Instagram to talk to them. The suit alleges they pushed her to drink, abuse prescription drugs and send explicit images, later precipitating suicide attempts.<\/p>\n<p>McGuire said Roblox bars users from posting phone numbers or off-platform links. But as momentum grows to connect disparate worlds into an alternate digital reality called the metaverse, Roblox is engaging with a consortium of companies about how they could work together in the face of different standards, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA real challenge when we start looking at the open metaverse concept is that we want to be able to preserve what we\u2019ve built and not just allow anything to come into our platform,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Dawn Chmielewski and Jeffrey Dastin in Austin; Editing by Josie Kao)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/roblox-says-policing-virtual\/attachment\/reuters-hosts-momentum-event\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9A17V-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9A17V-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dawn Chmielewski and Jeffrey Dastin (Reuters) -As online gaming platform Roblox Corp confronts a lawsuit alleging it enabled a California girl\u2019s exploitation, its chief scientist said finding dangerous content<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1889714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1684274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tech\/roblox-says-policing-virtual\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=roblox-says-policing-virtual","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1684274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1889714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}