There are some specific structures and incentives that create situations that make it easy to groom children. We can work to correct those.
For example Scouts relies (desperately) on volunteers. So unfortunately the “trusted adult” is perhaps sometime TOO interested in volunteering. And the Scout group sadly doesn’t think deeply enough cause they’re just happy to have a parent volunteer. You can see how this can create a dynamic that attracts the wrong kind of person that want to groom families to prey on children.
Pretty much all hierarchies run into this kind of perverse self-selection bias. Power hungry individuals are more motivated to climb the rungs of politics than anyone else. The work involved aquiring the kinds of fortunes that make you able to effect change weeds out anybody who doesn't just care about money. Popularity based positions get dominated by narcissists.
Bad actors are just more dedicated than the good ones. It's a hard situation to fix barring the complete elimination of privileged positions.
Yeah part of the issue is that with the boy scouts or relatives you have a bit more ability to watch your kids or can hope someone else is there to watch them.
It's a lot easier for a child to be unsupervised on the internet. I know I could do a lot of what I wanted online growing up even thought my in person interactions were pretty limited.
Part of that was my parents unawareness about the internet but even if they were smarter about it I would have found ways to get around anything they put in place.
Yes indeed, but at least some of the acts described in the blog post would land "normal", non-stock-listed forum operators in front of a court: aiding gambling activity and child abuse are serious crimes.
There are numerous laws that detail the responsibilities of operating anything on the Internet that is targeted towards children, and Roblox seems to be completely ignoring these. Not to mention they are ignoring their moral responsibility of protecting their underage users.
Roblox needs to shut down Robux redeeming immediately and prevent any kind of interaction where one account has not been verified to be of age and accounts that have been verified, and maybe allow interactions between close age groups. It's not that hard to do so.
