{"id":16213,"date":"2024-10-15T09:37:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T07:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/15\/ofcom-urged-to-act-after-us-firm-claims-roblox-is-paedophile-hellscape\/"},"modified":"2024-10-15T09:37:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T07:37:14","slug":"ofcom-urged-to-act-after-us-firm-claims-roblox-is-paedophile-hellscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/15\/ofcom-urged-to-act-after-us-firm-claims-roblox-is-paedophile-hellscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Ofcom urged to act after US firm claims Roblox is \u2018paedophile hellscape\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners say watchdog must ensure Online Safety Act is rigorous enough, after allegations about gaming platform<\/p>\n<p>Child safety campaigners have urged the UK communications watchdog to make a \u201cstep-change\u201d in its implementation of new online laws after a video game firm was accused of making its platform an \u201cX-rated paedophile hellscape\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Roblox, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2021\/dec\/21\/pushing-buttons-roblox\">gaming platform<\/a> with 80 million daily users, was accused of lax safety controls last week by a US investment firm.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/oct\/15\/roblox-allegations-ofcom-online-safety-act\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d929eb2710fef9209a3be6ead86e44fb2590b63f\/0_58_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5bce69697468db8a96dbd8a1f8e4f1ba\" title=\"Ofcom urged to act after US firm claims Roblox is \u2018paedophile hellscape\u2019\" \/>Campaigners say watchdog must ensure Online Safety Act is rigorous enough, after allegations about gaming platform<br \/>\nChild safety campaigners have urged the UK communications watchdog to make a \u201cstep-change\u201d in its implementation of new online laws after a video game firm was accused of making its platform an \u201cX-rated paedophile hellscape\u201d.<br \/>\nRoblox, a gaming platform with 80 million daily users, was accused of lax safety controls last week by a US investment firm. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners say watchdog must ensure Online Safety Act is rigorous enough, after allegations about gaming platform Child safety campaigners have urged the UK communications watchdog to make a \u201cstep-change\u201d in its implementation of new online laws after a video game firm was accused of making its platform an \u201cX-rated paedophile hellscape\u201d. Roblox, a gaming platform &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/15\/ofcom-urged-to-act-after-us-firm-claims-roblox-is-paedophile-hellscape\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ofcom urged to act after US firm claims Roblox is \u2018paedophile hellscape\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16213"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}