The answer IMO is to have a whitelist mentality toward online safety rather than a blacklist.
Parenting is essentially a form of mega censorship. So much that censoring is the default state of the child's interaction with the world, and a parent chooses to selectively and gradually uncensored certain things.
The open web is antithetical to raising children because it is, well, open. Before the Internet, there was no way for a child to interface with the entire world. It was a few tv channels, books at a library, kids in the neighborhood, and within these "platforms" it is quite easy for a parent to "blacklist" unwanted "content", e.g. "Don't hang out with Billy because he smokes pot, and if I see you with him, you're grounded."
The unpopular opinion but correct approach for kids on the Internet is to have everything blocked until explicitly approved--by the parent preferably, not by some curation algorithms a la YouTube Kids etc.
In terms of Roblox:
- mandatory age verification for any platform that is deemed to target children
- mandatory parental account for any child
- a parent account must whitelist all the individual games the child plays on Roblox
- communication transcripts saved for parents to view
- comms off by default for children
Source: parent of 3 kids dealing with this on a daily basis and seeing the obvious trainwrecks that occur when kids are left with free access.
Parenting is essentially a form of mega censorship. So much that censoring is the default state of the child's interaction with the world, and a parent chooses to selectively and gradually uncensored certain things.
The open web is antithetical to raising children because it is, well, open. Before the Internet, there was no way for a child to interface with the entire world. It was a few tv channels, books at a library, kids in the neighborhood, and within these "platforms" it is quite easy for a parent to "blacklist" unwanted "content", e.g. "Don't hang out with Billy because he smokes pot, and if I see you with him, you're grounded."
The unpopular opinion but correct approach for kids on the Internet is to have everything blocked until explicitly approved--by the parent preferably, not by some curation algorithms a la YouTube Kids etc.
In terms of Roblox:
- mandatory age verification for any platform that is deemed to target children
- mandatory parental account for any child
- a parent account must whitelist all the individual games the child plays on Roblox
- communication transcripts saved for parents to view
- comms off by default for children
Source: parent of 3 kids dealing with this on a daily basis and seeing the obvious trainwrecks that occur when kids are left with free access.