CEO of Roblox Says Child Predators on the Platform Are an "Opportunity"
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"I don't want to talk about our predator problem, I want to talk about getting kids on our platform"
Guy sounds like a predator exploiting kids himself.
Silicon Valley has always been pioneered by rapists. SV has always been about breaking boundaries and coercing consent
The company itself preys on children. The largest developers prey on children. It's not always the body that predators are after. It often is the vulnerability and naivety.
Their whole business model is exploiting children.
Roblox was a great idea from an acedemic lab on child education and STEM, but as soon as it was successful it went off the rails.
Maybe I've already had an aneurysm and this reality is merely a terrible delusion borne of that.
Reality is that ethics are subjective restrictions we place on ourselves and each other. When these restrictions aren't maintained, the choice of harming another for one's self benefit loses its inherent consequencial dread.
Those who don't fear the results of their actions cannot weigh the possible risks involved. And when there are no risks seen, only the possible benefits remain.
... to make money.
"we profit off of child labor and paedophiles. no need to hide it baybee"
Simulated underage children! We call them honey pots… you can add one to your kids account for an extra $50 a month.
How many robux is that?
The problem we provide for free, the solution however is $50/month.
Capitalism in a nutshell
A large community of child predators is a great opportunity - to expand roblox into a prestige networking site for the republican party.
Ignorance is letting your kid play roblox. Scumbag platform.
ok, that's enough Capitalism, i think
Only a businessman could look at literally anything at all and call it an opportunity.
Whaaaat
Capitalism man the game doesn't stop for some raped kids...
I was going to say just that. That system is beyond fucked up. It's just unethical.
Lordy, I hate sensationalized editorial headlines. This is the actual quote.
This is standard corpo/PR speak when addressing an issue, you refer to it as an "opportunity", there's an implied "to solve/address".
This did not make it better.
Contrarians don't understand the difference between disagreeing and having a point.
Reminds me of an old joke...
Man goes to his boss and says "can we talk. I have a problem!"
His boss gets mad and replies "I don't want to hear about your problems. We are an opportunity based company. We don't have problems we have opportunities to improve. Do you understand?"
The man thinks and then replies "yeah, I get it."
"great now tell me what you wanted to talk about, and you better not use the word problem!"
"well.. Based on what you said, I have a huge drinking opportunity"
Ludicrously bad wording, a CEO really should have realized that there's situations corpo speak isn't the right choice
Unfortunately, CEOs are really only good for one thing. Saying nothing by spouting a bunch of corporate jargon.
Full interview question and answer, just for fullness of context:
Am I the only one that's reading that over and over trying to find where he actually clarifies about it being an "opportunity"? It seems as though he just says that and starts talking nonsense.
11 billion engagement hours a month! Does anyone seriously believe that lol. And still not profitable! What do they need, ever human beings every waking hour to spin a profit!?
It comes out to be 73 hours over a month, per daily active. That's about 2.5hrs daily, which doesn't seem too far fetched considering it's cross-platform and also a large mobile audience.
A normal full time job including holiday is only ~140 hours a month. Assuming you believe their user stats too that would be pretty grim. You probably shouldn't though.
Only when paired with precise geo location and cruise missiles.
Really leans into CEO is just a serial killer in a different setting.
Can we not be slandering the zodiac killer?
Their greed has messed up their perceptions. Just disgusting.
Of course you do. That "think of the children!" is only narrative you'd use to advance that agenda of yours, which usually involve eroding civil liberty.
An opportunity to get cozy with the president, to have paid accounts without moderation features
Sue them out of existence. They are not going to stop.
PaaS, pedo as a service?
This guy has a certificate in SWOT analysis and he is gonna use it
If I ever have kids, they'll find that every network at home will block off roblox entirely.
You want to go back and reword that?
More tech bros making bank from crimes. Lovely
An opportunity it's, like Dexter? But instead of murdering murderers he rapes child rapists?
Almost!
He's already a paedo himself, so this isn't surprising. He looks young, but I think there's a huge reason for it.
In bazuski's defense, he's a moron.
Opportunity to put them in the morgue where they belong, right?
What a clickbait headline
He literally said it. And then dodged the followup questions multiple times.
He didn't answer how it's click bait, he just downvoted you and me. I think he's upset that child predators can't get away with things.
How is it click bait?
Edit: You just downvoted me and didn't answer, so you have none and just like talking.
It's not, he's just a corposcum-sniffing fanboy.
He's a corpo huffer who loves to defend companies ran by pedophiles as far as I can tell.
Makes sense when you look at his profile. Dude says anything a company wants him to.
Not the person you asked, but I think it's clickbait because it presents the word without context in such a way as to provoke an emotional response. It sounds like maybe he thinks he can make money off of child predators. The subheading "Who said CEOs don't have a sense of humor?" also implies that he said it jokingly.
You can read the original interview here: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/podcasts/hardfork-roblox-child-safety.html
I think "CEO of Roblox downplays problem of child predators on the platform" or "CEO of Roblox dodges questions of child safety" very accurately describe how the interview went and are not misleading. (The original headline is kid gloves bullshit, and I'm not happy about that either.)
e: Realized the Futurism article literally says "Baszucki didn’t downplay the issue of child exploitation as some might expect." He did absolutely did at multiple points in the interview.
That's how it sounds in the full interview, too. He doesn't explain, but that's what it sounds like.
Yes, that's what the CEO wants.