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Pedophile heaven?

rootabaga

rootabaga

Android Expert
Sorry for the provacative title, but it does seem to fit and my hope is that people with kids will read this.

Roblox games, that are aimed at kids, have a chat feature that indeed would be an ideal vector for pedophiles to pursue kids.

Mr Morrison decided to use the game - dubbed the new Minecraft – after reading a worrying article about it online, The Sun reported.

He asked his two boys, aged 8 and 11, if they used the game and they said they did, so he decided to check it out.

Shockingly within 15 minutes of playing the 33-year-old father was shown sexual positions, and told he was “sexy” and “cute”.

He said from the outside the game looked fine, but when he went into a room with a pool he was immediately “propositioned”.
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http://www.kidspot.com.au/parenting...nd-vile-messages-in-popular-game-on-sons-ipad
 
I'd be all for showing them straight to hell.
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That's beyond scary! I'll be sure to tell my sister and brother, they both have kids and I'm not sure either is really on top of what they're doing on their phones. Oh dear.
 
Any parent who's not aware of the dangers of the web needs to wake up. Any game which has built-in chat function can and will be abused by these sick individuals.
 
This was in the UK papers (or maybe just one of them, I don't pay much attention to them).

My 8 year old son plays Roblox but I've told him never to use the chat function and to let me know if anyone messages him. That goes for ALL games he plays.

All the accounts he uses (Xbox live, Minecraft etc) are in my name and have my contact details so I'd know pretty quickly if something nefarious was going on.

In my opinion, this is only really an issue if you don't pay attention to what your kid is doing and leave them to their own devices.
 
Thanks for the heads up, I just forwarded that article to my Brother and some friends that have kids in the correct age group.
 
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