Kids' safety gets treated as a number
When problems come to light, the answer is a statistic about how rare they are. Every one of those cases is a child, and the people running the company should start there.
Millions of kids play Roblox every day. Their safety keeps getting answered with statistics and press releases. We want a CEO who treats it as the job.
Roblox is one of the biggest platforms for children in the world. Under its current leadership, the response to safety problems has been numbers and new restrictions, while the underlying problems stay.
When problems come to light, the answer is a statistic about how rare they are. Every one of those cases is a child, and the people running the company should start there.
Locking chat and adding age checks pushes the cost onto players. What's missing is real moderation, real accountability and leadership that owns the problem.
A company's priorities are set by its CEO. After years of the same approach, we're asking the board for a new one, and a new person to lead it.
Our ask is simple. The Roblox board should replace David Baszucki as CEO with someone who puts player safety ahead of growth numbers.
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