Lawfirm aims to protect Roblox whistleblowers while Roblox faces lawsuits and a documentary about its child safety issues

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After news broke out about Roblox threatening to sue a prominent user that hunted down predators inside Roblox, the whole issue became more widespread, and now, lawfirms and even government attorney generals are getting involved in the situation, with both instances showing support for Schlep and his endevours to stop predators in Roblox.

Two days ago, Congressman Ro Khanna issued a video to gather signatures for a petition to take action and push Roblox to enforce better security for children on their platform. After that, Schlep's case caught even more attention, to the point where crime journalist and host of the "To Catch A Predator" TV series, Chris Hansen, has reached out to Schlep to start a new documentary, focusing on Roblox and their endangerment of children online when using their game.



Adding up to the situation, Louisiana's Department of Justice Attorney General Liz Murril released a statement on her X profile, making it publicly known that she has filed a lawsuit against Roblox due to their lack of safety protocols on their game, endangering children that play on their platform.



But it's not over yet.

Stinar Gould Grieco & Hensley, PLLC (SGGH), a lawfirm that specializes in high-profile litigation against big corporations, and Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman, PLLC, a lawfirm that focuses on leading class-action and whistleblower protection in cases involving corporate accountability and consumer protection, are stepping in and will defend Schlep over the cease and desist letter that he got last week from Roblox, with the lawfirms claiming that this specific behaviour by Roblox towards Schlep "suggests a company more concerned with suppressing criticism than addressing the predator problem on their platform.”



Lawfirms statement said:
Roblox whistleblowers Schlep and Sim are represented by Martin D. Gould, Michael R. Grieco, and Steven L. Vanderporten of Stinar Gould Grieco & Hensley, PLLC, Gary Klinger, Melissa Nafash, and Melinda Maxson of Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman, PLLC.

Without a doubt, Roblox got themselves into a cesspool of criticism and dubious actions, with their effort being more towards keeping their investors and income secure, rather than bringing that security to their userbase and children that day by day play on their platform.
The situation is still on-going, and with how big the case is getting, it's likely that this won't be the final statements we hear from Roblox and actions taken against its lack of action against this pressing issue at hand.

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some guy in the government suing a giant corporation not because of any "anti-consumer" practices or "anti-competitive" shit but because something as simple as the giant corporation defending fucking pedophiles?,

Do I even have to explain why this was to be expected because the practices that sitll exist prevalently ($70+ games, microtransactions, suing competition or just buying them out) that people continue to whine about are seen in the gaming industry is seen as legal in the US but something reprehensible as actively trying to diddle kids is something even Uncle Sam wouldn't let fly?
 
I'm wondering if this will have a huge affect on other related MMO games. How will they actually make it better? Government could step in and require laws that game devs have to investigate more serious reports like this? Will background checks be required for new people joining? Let's not forget roblox is a 90Bn corporation according to Google so take down will be very difficult. I've never played the game myself so I have no idea what the ecosystem is like.
 

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