[ndriscoll]

One possibility: hold executives, product managers, and engineers personally criminally liable for building a system that puts inappropriate material in front of children or connects them with predators, and let them figure out how they'd like to avoid that liability. Could be through building something more robust (e.g. only allowing kids to play with pre-whitelisted friends, not any anonymous user), or hiring a legion of moderators, or through not building such a platform at all. That's up to them.

We don't need to prescribe what they ought to do. It's sufficient to say what we have here is unacceptable and make fixing it be a them problem.

[frm88]

This !! 100% Match the relation between power/control with reliability/consequences, instead of damning us all to ID for every Internet use (and that is coming) and so immensely risk that we get access to critical information and/or face increasing censorship. That would require a change of perception, but it would solve so many problems, from the one discussed here with Roblox as an example to food contaminated with whatever to appliances quality.

[jasonfarnon]

"hold executives, product managers, and engineers personally criminally liable for building a system that puts inappropriate material in front of children"

If that didn't happen with pornography websites in the 90s/2000s it's probably not happening now.

[cocainemonster]

> e.g. only allowing kids to play with pre-whitelisted friends

if any of your friends are playing the game and the server is not full, they already try to put you in the same server