Roblox gets banned indefinitely in Turkey over “child exploitation”
The Turkish government has blocked access to Roblox for users across the nation over concerns regarding “child exploitation”.
I'm surprised turkey is the first one to do this but... good.
Really sad to see this happen. I remember reading lua docs in the late 00's when I was like nine or whatever. Shit was the first real exposure I had to programming.
Maybe its just because I was a kid but it seemed purer at first. Like it was really there just to get kids programming.
I don't know how it was when you were a kid, but there's been a good number of pretty damning stories since then.
Especially the one about the fucking overt pedophile with the rabid "edgy" fanbase and Roblox having to be coerced into doing something.
Or the shady team-developed games, that are not being controlled in any way by Roblox, but where minor developers are being "recruited" and exploited by adults.
Or the way Roblox itself obfuscates how much you can profit from your games with absurd fees over fees over terrible fake money exchange rates. And how it encourages shitty monetization practices.
Too many capitalist milkshakes, and Turkey has the added incentive of wanting to keep its culture closed off from the rest of the "West".
Turkey W.
