Why Roblox?
Large Target for Documentary
The Roblox controversy started in early 2025 when it banned vigilante wannabes who kept trying to entrap “predators” who were mentally ill. The “predator catchers” as they called themselves, did this by falsely posing as a minor to entrap “predators”. The baiting and stings were covert. This is like taking a case of beer and putting it outside an Alcoholic Anonymous meeting to see if you can catch a potential drunk.
For all the talk about exploiting and grooming minors, no one seems to realize it is wrong to exploit and grooming mentally ill people to entrap them. Roblox was banning people from exacerbating mental illness. So suddenly people start filing lawsuits. Makes you wonder who watches the watchman.
Some of you may remember the television series To Catch a Predator which was hosted by Chris Hansen. The series ended after a targeted mentally ill person committed suicide. The result was a lawsuit which NBC settled out of court (https://abcnews.com/Blotter/story?id=5238922&page=1).
Chris Hansen’s latest effort resulted in a documentary about Roblox which premiered February 27 of this year (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/chris-hansen-investigates-child-safety-concerns-on-roblox-in-trublu-exclusive-documentary-special-302695708.html and (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hansen#Dangerous_Games:_Investigating_Roblox). To watch the documentary, you have to pay a subscription for a very dramatized video with music and labeling mentally ill people as monsters and predators.
So instead of dealing with an industry-wide problem with social media, games and smartphones, a single company, Roblox, is singled out to line the pocket of film makers. Apparently, Roblox is competition to other larger companies so defaming and singling them out for child exploitation may be the result of auteur motives. All I know is I am not quite certain the Nebraska Attorney General needed to enter in on this matter, but it makes for good politics, doesn’t it?
