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Does that help with any of this? https://hindenburgresearch.com/roblox/ https://hindenburgresearch.com/roblox/ "Following years of scandals, we performed our
by gambiting 11mo ago
Does that help with any of this?
https://hindenburgresearch.com/roblox/ https://hindenburgresearch.com/roblox/
"Following years of scandals, we performed our own checks to see if the platform had cleaned up its act. As a test, we attempted to set up an account under the name ‘Jeffrey Epstein’…only to see the name was taken, along with 900+ variations.
Many were Jeffrey Epstein fan accounts, including “JeffEpsteinSupporter” which had earned multiple badges for spending time in kid’s games. Other Jeff Epstein accounts had the usernames “@igruum_minors” [I groom minors], and “@RavpeTinyK1dsJE” [rape tiny kids].
We attempted to set up a Roblox account under the name of another notorious pedophile to see if Roblox had any up-front pedophile screening: Earl Brian Bradley was indicted on 471 charges of molesting, raping and exploiting 103 children. The username was taken, along with multiple variants like earlbrianbradley69.
After we found a username, we listed our age as “under 13” to see if children are being exposed to adult content. By merely plugging ‘adult’ into the Roblox search bar, we found a group called “Adult Studios” with 3,334 members openly trading child pornography and soliciting sexual acts from minors.
We tracked some of the members of “Adult Studios” and easily found 38 Roblox groups – one with 103,000 members – openly soliciting sexual favors and trading child pornography."
- BoredPositron 11mo agoNo but look how hard they try and now they have a feature they can wiggle around with if something bad happens. It's theater as always with stuff like this. There is just no way of doing it without real inconvenience for every user. Inconvenience really hurts the bottom line...
- miohtama 11mo agoFort Gayers want their limelight back https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-11258407 https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-11258407
- wizzwizz4 11mo agoThere's no cheap way of doing it without inconvenience for every user. Rather than age checks, they could just remove the CSAE distribution groups, appropriately moderate abusive conduct, and so on. HN has basically no restrictions whatsoever, and it's hardly a hive of scum and villainy: it's not fundamentally difficult to accomplish this, you just have to put the work in.
- DANmode 11mo agoHN doesn’t have a young, ignorant community to exploit. It’s mostly the positive-direction moderation that makes HN immune to the infiltration.
- DANmode 11mo agoWhat do you expect, Roblox and other large internet services to hire commandos? If the FBI gave a shit about these groups being squashed, and people being roped, they would be. Fuck Roblox, but point the finger on ineffective tracking of child exploitation networks where it belongs.
- DaSHacka 11mo ago[flagged]
- ch2026 11mo agoWe’ll get downvoted but fully agreed. Because HN isn’t a place for constructive communication that lies outside the approved groupthink.
- gambiting 11mo agoNow I kinda want to know what they said, since the comment was removed before I could read it
- DANmode 11mo agoSo open it.
- gambiting 11mo agoOpen what? How? It just says "[flagged]" for me and there is no way that I can see to actually read it. Even clicking directly on the comment doesn't show it. Unless there is some magic way to do it that I'm not aware of.
- DANmode 11mo agoChange ShowDead flag in your user settings, and/or click the timestamp permalink.
- gambiting 11mo ago>>and/or click the timestamp permalink. That doesn't work if you have the ShowDead flag on, as it turns out. But alas, I didn't even know this existed, I changed the flag to on and now I can see the comment.
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- squigz 11mo agoI've been on the Internet for 20 years and have seen ... a lot of it. I have a hard time believing groups of 103,000 members on one of the largest game platforms are "openly trading child pornography"
- DANmode 11mo agoSo go look. Check Telegram, Matrix, and anywhere on the internet basically, for more of the same.