The head of the platform says that children making money on it is a gift

Getting What You Want: Exploiting Children’s In-game Experiences in Online Casinos: Roblox Acquise and Supports Economic Activities

There’s also the issue of what these in-game experiences entail. Roblox countered by saying the kids got what they bargained for when they used their Robux in online casinos. The judge wrote that the children were not talking about. The amusement park analogy has been turned on its head. , the judge wrote that this situation was more akin to “a casino setting up shop outside an amusement park and luring a child away to wager and lose the tickets to an illegal gambling operation—tickets that the casino can then exchange for cash.”

Even if tickets cannot be exchanged for cash, they do have economic value, according to the March 26th order. When someone purchases Robux on the Roblox platform, they do so because they have access to in-game experiences that are worth something to them. The movie or roller coaster ride in the real world can’t be compared to an in-game experience in the virtual world.

“You can say, ‘Okay, we are exploiting, you know, child labor,’ right? Corazza said they are offering people anywhere in the world the ability to get a job and even like an income. A boy living in a slum can be able to make money and sustain his life with just a laptop. (An unidentified Roblox PR person present during the interview told Eurogamer that most of the developers earning money on Roblox are 18 or older.)

Roblox has made recent overtures to legislators in an effort to prove it is taking children’s safety seriously. “Obviously, everyone wants to keep kids safe,” Roblox CEO and co-founder David Baszucki told The Verge’s Alex Heath. “It has been something we’ve always focused on. And so we wanted to be a resource for legislators as they start thinking about laws.”

Legislation that affects internet use by kids is something Baszucki plans to discuss with Washington, DC lawmakers.