By Gavin Boyle
Roblox just agreed to a $10 million settlement with the Nevada Attorney General along with a commitment to strengthening child safety on the platform.
“Today, I’m excited to announce a very important win in [the area of social media accountability]. I’m proud to say that our state has agreed to a settlement with the interactive gaming platform Roblox,” said Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford last week. “This is going to implement much needed protections to our state’s youth on this platform.”
While this settlement took place in the state of Nevada, it will result in changes across the country. Roblox has agreed to implement an age-verification system for all users, limit notifications to child accounts during nighttime hours and create a new law enforcement liaison position. These changes will roll out nationwide by the end of June.
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“This resolution creates a blueprint for how industry and regulators can work together to protect the next generation of digital citizens,” said Roblox Chief Safety Officer Matt Kaufman. “We have no finish line when it comes to safety, and we are grateful for the Attorney General’s advocacy in pioneering this path forward.”
Roblox has not admitted any wrongdoing in this case.
The platform has come under intense fire in recent years after numerous studies have found Roblox extremely unsafe for its young users, and it has done little to protect them from predators. In October 2024, for example, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) found over 100,000 Roblox players actively engaging in predatory actions on the platform.
“A new report describes Roblox as ‘a pedophile hellscape for kids.’ Researchers easily identified 38 Roblox groups — one with as many as 103,000 members — openly trading child sexual abuse material,” NCOSE reported.
“User names like ‘@igruum_minors’ [I groom minors], and ‘@RavpeTinyK1dsJE’ [rape tiny kids] are common, with 900+ variations alone of abuser Jeffrey Epstein and multiple variations using Earl Brian Bradley, who was indicted on 471 charges of molesting, raping, and exploiting 103 children,” NCOSE continued.
While Roblox has worked to clean up its act and fight to protect its users, these efforts have born little fruit. Children continue to be targeted by bad actors despite the complete overhaul to the system’s safety procedures that took place throughout 2025.
For this reason, Roblox continues to face over 140 lawsuits, including disputes with attorney generals from Texas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Tennessee and Florida, per Reuters.
The settlement between Nevada and Roblox is the first step in the right direction for the platform as it requires real change to take place. Hopefully these changes will protect the game’s young users and allow them to enjoy the experience without being targeted by predators and bad actors.
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