{"id":20759,"date":"2025-11-06T14:37:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T13:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/06\/roblox-shocks-online-gaming-platform-should-be-snared-by-australias-social-media-ban-for-under-16s-experts-and-mps-say\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:37:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T13:37:41","slug":"roblox-shocks-online-gaming-platform-should-be-snared-by-australias-social-media-ban-for-under-16s-experts-and-mps-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/06\/roblox-shocks-online-gaming-platform-should-be-snared-by-australias-social-media-ban-for-under-16s-experts-and-mps-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Roblox shocks: online gaming platform should be snared by Australia\u2019s social media ban for under-16s, experts and MPs say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pressure mounts on Labor in wake of Guardian Australia report documenting reporter\u2019s week of virtual sexual harassment and violence while posing as a child avatar<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are growing calls for the federal government to address the risks posed to children on the popular gaming platform Roblox after Guardian Australia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2025\/nov\/05\/roblox-game-robux-children-child-kids-safety-parental-controls\">published a report<\/a> that documented a week of virtual sexual harassment and violence.<\/p>\n<p>While playing as an eight-year-old girl, the reporter was given a sexualised avatar, cyberbullied, aggressively killed, sexually assaulted and shat on \u2013 all with parental control settings in place.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2025\/nov\/07\/roblox-online-gaming-platform-should-be-snared-by-australia-u16-social-media-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3de381273bfc4105781f6a0b59709add5d239243\/212_0_2248_1800\/master\/2248.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6ca504021d66c36e4e6a706862ae682b\" title=\"Roblox shocks: online gaming platform should be snared by Australia\u2019s social media ban for under-16s, experts and MPs say\" \/>Pressure mounts on Labor in wake of Guardian Australia report documenting reporter\u2019s week of virtual sexual harassment and violence while posing as a child avatar<br \/>\nGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast<br \/>\nThere are growing calls for the federal government to address the risks posed to children on the popular gaming platform Roblox after Guardian Australia published a report that documented a week of virtual sexual harassment and violence.<br \/>\nWhile playing as an eight-year-old girl, the reporter was given a sexualised avatar, cyberbullied, aggressively killed, sexually assaulted and shat on \u2013 all with parental control settings in place. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pressure mounts on Labor in wake of Guardian Australia report documenting reporter\u2019s week of virtual sexual harassment and violence while posing as a child avatar Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast There are growing calls for the federal government to address the risks posed to children on the popular gaming &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/06\/roblox-shocks-online-gaming-platform-should-be-snared-by-australias-social-media-ban-for-under-16s-experts-and-mps-say\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roblox shocks: online gaming platform should be snared by Australia\u2019s social media ban for under-16s, experts and MPs say<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20760,"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\/20759"}],"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=20759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}