When I was a kid, fifty plus years ago, my parents wouldn’t let me play with certain kids, watch certain movies, or go to certain parties because they could be a bad influence on me.
Parents are on Facebook or other social media. Parent use these games and other internet platforms to serve as “ baby sitters” while they have their own free time. Most of it unmonitored and in separate rooms with no over site. Most parents have no idea really what their kids see or listen to. We have a generation since 2000 that have little to no parenting and respect, manners and social skills are poor in schools, work and even most family homes.
My parents got me interested in languages and literature, and encouraged me to do well in school. Thanks to that, even when puberty hit I never shared my peers' obsession with getting drunk and high and whatnot. Frankly, I found their shenanigans boring and repetitive; a waste of time.
When you nurture your kids' inner world, and show them what they can achieve when they apply themselves, not many will throw that away for some fleeting thrill.
They’re over at their friend’s house, looking at their friend’s iPhone or iPad, and lying to their own parents. Pretty simple actually, if you’ve had kids in the last 20 years. It’s impossible to keep them from seeing this stuff. They all have devices. They all figure out pretty quickly how to uninstall or get around any software to block stuff we don’t want them to see. Speaking from experience.
I don’t disagree, but the predators are the filthy, vile scum that prey upon children that should be held accountable for their disgusting, evil criminal behavior/actions. Too many are blaming the parents and saying nothing about the vile creatures that harm children.
That’s just a list of excuses. To say that parents have no control over their child’s life is bullshit. Does it take effort? Yup. Does anyone remember what the words ‘personal responsibility’ mean?
All their friends have them. They will see everything. The Genie is out of the bottle. We need to manage that reality and quit believing we can out the genie back in the bottle. I don’t like it either. I watched my kids live through this huge change in our lives. It sucks but you can’t delude yourself into thinking you can keep your kid in a bubble. You can’t.
Same upbringing. My parents knew everything I was doing and not doing. Life was indeed simpler then but I would bet my life on the fact that if I were 5 years old today, my parents would raise me the exact same way they did in the 70s.
You are a parent first, second, and third…being a friend happens once you’ve completely handled the first three.
Funny you mentioned that TV show. My mother didn’t want us watching it either along with pro wrestling for the same reasons. I don’t think she thought it was a good idea for us to think we could go around poking or punching our friends in the face etc.
Me and my friends grew up watching them and we knew full well it was fake violence for comedy's sake. None of us ever got poked in the eye or poked anyone in the eye. The stooges were brilliant for satire and double-entendres.
My mom didn't like me watching it either, but she reluctantly capitulated, tho she had tactics to distract from it. Curly was my favorite too. We guys used to do all his sounds and signs. Probably was really annoying to everyone else.
I agree. I was never told not to watch it, but I knew those parts on the show were not normal to do to anyone. Some kids are easily influenced by shows and playing violent video games. Others are not. But parents should let their children know what shows they feel are not suitable for them. Or block them.
Parents have to continue to reinforce proper behaviors with appropriate boundaries and instruction while their children are young so they can hopefully become responsible adult's.
Great comments Carol !!! Thanks for adding to the conversation.
we weren’t allowed to watch it for the same reason. or batman and robin (the live one, not the cartoon). Weren’t allowed to have Barbies for the longest time because they promoted an unrealistic body image. My brothers weren’t allowed to play football because of the possibility of head injury. We thought our mom was crazy. But really she was ahead of her time in these areas.
I know some kids do copy. I didn't. I knew it wasn't normal to do some of the things they did...pulling hair out, poking in the eyes, etc. I had common sense to know that people shouldn't do that to anyone. Aside from the violent parts, I did like the show. But I didn't watch it all the time either. As kids, we played outside as much as we could. We didn't want to come when it turned dark. Now many kids are glued to the TV, video games, and social media. Technology is not good in my opinion. We were better off before all this came into existence.
It's actually quite a challenge to always be on top of every single thing our kiddo is watching/playing. We definitely monitor the time and know what games are played, but with the vast array of servers and variations, it can be a challenge to stay on top of it all.
I don’t have any children and it is easy to be an armchair quarterback sometimes. I do hear the stories from family and friends and I realize it can be a challenge. Plus I was a little wild and wooly as a young boy and now can understand it from that point of view.
Thanks for the reply and adding to the conversation.
Thanks for generating some conversation. A relevant topic for sure. Parents don't realize giving their kids a phone means they OK with inviting every kind of person from all over the globe into their home. And worse, often into their child's room.... unattended. Great question, that none have a complete and sensible answer to.
I would think that if a person, the parent didn’t know, just showed up at their door they wouldn’t just let them in. And yet that’s exactly what they are doing leaving their children unsupervised.
Thanks for adding this important point to the conversation.
That is exactly what we figured out during our investigation into child exploitation. We reported a dozen sites that were openly marketing underage porn in chat rooms for kids and grooming kids into producing paid content. The FCC and FBI did nothing. All of these sites are still front page on Google for the search term 'teen chat rooms'. Nothing changes because they do not want it to change. Our government is filled with pedophiles now.
And the ‘lead dog’ pedophile, who himself has paid out more than $35 MILLION to keep his pedophilia crimes silent, is in the White House clearing the way for pedophiles everywhere!!!!!
The worst part of the entire Trump thing, there are millions of Americans, people that claim they are Christian, who believe Trump was literally ‘sent by God’ to clean up America. They are too daft to recognize that this Russiagate scandal conveniently hit the news right at the apex of people questioning his involvement in the Epstein case and why the FBI reneged on their claim they had the files and names and were releasing them all only to tell the world it never existed a few months later. It is classic diversion tactics and these people are too brainwashed to recognize it. Ya know who else nationalized police in a response to a ‘criminal emergency’? Hitler and Hugo Chavez both did before they took dictatorial control of Germany and Venezuela. Trump is following their playbook to such a literal “T” that I cannot help but speak out about it and now I am getting hate mail every day from people calling me a ‘Democrat retard’. I have never voted Democrat in my entire life. I am a staunch Conservative that either votes Republican or Libertarian and always have since I turned 18. These people are freaking mental. They literally think Trump was sent by GOD. I mean, you cannot make this up. This is the sort of thing that happens when people’s brains are so fried from media overloads and poison in our food supply and lack of any intellectually stimulating activity beyond shit-posting online make up the majority of voters. I don’t know what to do honestly. If I am right, and by God I hope I am not, and Trump is aiming for a coup - I will have maybe 24 hours to get the Hell out of the USA before I end up in a death camp. I am a Hebrew but not the Zionist kind so I am ostracized there, I have always been publishing anti-government literature for 20 years, and vocally speaking out against Freemasonry for the last 5. I am not well liked. I am the exact sort of person they want out of the picture because I am intelligent enough to know that if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and swims like a duck - it is a fucking duck.
If you look at the actions of Hitler before and after coming to power, it is like Trump is following Hitler’s ‘playbook’ word for word.
The saddest part of all, is that there are millions of Americans, like many of the German people, that were just like Sheeple following each other to the slaughterhouse!!
None of the alphabet government agencies do any good. More to the point: your question implies that the government is supposed to be your ‘mommy’. People need to take their lives, and those of their children, into their own hands.
Thanks. I am sick of people crying for the nanny state to protect them. Right now the totalitarians are working on age verification to "save the children," a bi-partisan effort that lets a government agency decide what speech is concerning online, rather than require parents have better tools to protect their children themselves.
I really think this crap is literally opening up demonic portals straight to our children's brains. The entertainment value, the lights, colors, sounds....all of it is specifically made to be a "gateway drug" so to speak. When their brains get used to all of it and it starts to feel boring, then they feel comfortable going up to the next level of "entertainment", which is the pornography and pedophilia, and because they're children they don't even realize how manipulated they've been. They're not capable of understanding what's really going on and thus not capable of protecting themselves. Someday they'll understand and they'll thank you for protecting them.
Children are programmed-socialized into whatever environment they chance to be born into. When evil deviant behaviors become normalized in a society the children's neurological connections become set to believe evil behaviors are normal. If you are raised in a cannibalistic society you will be a cannibal. Changing one's mind-SELF-beliefs after childhood is difficult, but possible if one is exposed to opposing information.
Thank you to Schlep for exposing this vile game and I pray that FBI and other police forces are currently undercover investigating the entire Roblox structure
I have always found it extremely disturbing that games like Minecraft and Roblox, clearly made for children, have been havens for adult males (and even females) to play on the same servers that kids as young as 5 spend hours a day on. I first noticed something off when Youtube celebrity influencers began making videos where they would do 'Minecraft Raids' on little kids servers and then break their hard work creations for a few laughs. I thought it was strange then. A few years later, a co-worker of mine, someone I had long suspected was involved in child exploitation due to a few creepy things he had told to me over lunch about 4chan and some meme icon named 'PedoBear' (which I learned is a symbol groomers of children use online to identify themselves to one another), mentioned to me how much he loves to play Roblox. I asked him, 'isn't that a kids game?' and he just smiled and said, 'of course'. I knew something was off even then. I ended up tracking down his Roblox account and pretended to be a 5 year old girl playing on the same server and began talking to him. Within a few days of our interactions beginning, he was asking for my 'real life' social media accounts, photos, phone number etc. I told him, 'I am 5 years old. My mom doesn't let me have that stuff.' and he replied, 'Well, you have a house phone, right?' I gave him the number to the FBI anonymous tip number for child predators. I recorded our entire interaction and then anonymously emailed it to our employer's HR department. He never showed up for work the following Monday. These sites are being used to groom children into sexual exploitation. We spent several months last year investigating multiple clearnet 'chat rooms for teens' (age 12-19) and what we found was extremely disturbing. Literal 'gangs' of online smut peddlers selling underage girl content on this sites which were filled with adult men looking to have cybersex and start relationships with girls. Even worse, many of these sites had active users whose job was to recruit young girls into working for their 'content farms' which pay thousands of dollars to teen girls (and to a lesser extend boys) to produce pornographic content for them to resell. Some of the girls we interviewed were even introduced to prostitution through their content marketing. If you are interested in learning more, check out the article here - https://wisewolfmedia.substack.com/p/the-digital-meat-market
It was such a horrible few months of research. I had to go see a psychiatrist towards the end because I developed PTSD after I started getting death threats because of my investigation. I am still scarred from it and all the sites we investigated, every single one of them still operates and appears front page on Google when you search 'teen chat rooms'. The worst offender, an app called 'Kik' is one of the most downloaded chat apps on the Google Playstore and is so rife with illegal content, drugs, etc that I cannot understand how the company behind it cannot be aware of what their app is really being used for. I suppose they don't really care that the product they coded is being used to push underage porn and drugs to whomever is willing to throw a few crypto coins to the sellers as long as they are getting them sweet, sweet download metrics that are pushing their stock prices through the roof until they can sell their company out to a bigger fish in the sewage sea for a few hundred million and retire to Thailand with their harem of 14 year olds... The internet is disgusting now. It was not like this until smartphones democratized it. Now every sick bastard on the planet has a phone and can access the internet and live out all their disgusting fantasies.
Having kids, it really hit home. The whole thing is truly a deep seated evil invading the planet. And the callousness of the girls I mean wow again. Holy shit.
The one girl we spoke with, she was 16 at the time, which is technically legal age of consent in the UK (but she had begun making and selling content years prior to this) told us, ‘I make more money than my parents. Why should I waste the best years of my life working when I can be a millionaire by 18?’ 16 years old. I felt horrible. I wish I had had her real name so I could have tracked down her parents to tell them what she was doing but she was smart. She made sure to keep everything she said anonymous.
As a Brit I have to assume that the FCC is a department of federal government?
If that is the case do Americans abandon their parental responsibilities these days and expect the government to step in and take over the safety of their children?
As the parent of 2 boys (now adults) if a paedophile had attempted an improper relationship with my kids they'd be dead. Just for trying.
....yada, yada, yada, blah, blah, blah.....tough talk there, Keyboard Warrior....i"m baking in my shoots.... Your "Gov't" jails decent folks who post memes, then they protect Paki rape gangs. You have NO credibility on this issue here in Trump's America....
My "government" is a disgrace. How are their actions my responsibility?
My criticism is not of the government - it's of the parents...
You - on the other hand - appear to side with the predators...? Maybe you should keep your head down a bit lest some of the decent parents in your part of the world decide to pay you a visit.
DUDE! Do you (mis-)take everything so PERSONALLY? Do you mis-interpret everything you read? I'm slagging on Starmer, et al, NOT personally blaming you! What, you have a guilty conscience? Go look in the mirror! Your ridiculous and blatantly false allegation that I "side with pedos" is wanker-level. Slag off, poofter!
It is better for him that a great millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
It's not shocking because the world as we know it has shifted to a world that profanity is applauded.Clearly they are grooming to desensitize children on morality and considering these are teens and preteens with hormones out of control,they are the perfect prey.
It’s just like the bullies in high school that the school systems always protect, while dismissing, demeaning and ostracizing those who are being bullied!!
So the predators that prey upon the children are not to blame? Disagree. The predators are still the worst, most vile scum that exists. The predators are the villains.
Parents need to be aware of what’s happening to protect their children. You blaming/shaming the parents is off-base.
Your logic is twisted and/or you’re justifying the acts of the predators because you are one of them.
Wow. I would never "justify the acts of predators". And I wouldn't let parents off the hook for not monitoring their children's associations. You've made a serious and unfounded accusation, though, for which you should apologize.
Vile minds and forces have always preyed on the innocent. Parents need to remember their role in protecting children. It's the only realm in which they have ultimate power.
Sorry if my tone was too strong.... Most parents are ALSO victims in this....Please STOP playing the juvenile & pointless, ineffective, counter-productive "Blame Game"....ok?....thnx
I gave up playing the stupid "Blame Game" years ago. Same with "fault". I don't care whose "fault" anything is. It's an irrelevant distraction. It's juvenile, and counter-productive. We need to target the bad guys, stop them, protect children, and do the right thing, NOT argue about whose fault it is! My point was, that there are MANY persons involved, who must ALL work together, to protect children..... Blaming & faulting don't help....
This IS NOT a democrat or a republican problem!!!!!
BOTH PARTYS are completely controlled by the global elites who are using their power and vast financial resources to control both party’s who in turn use their influence and power to control every person running for office to force them to comply and promote the global elites massive agenda for complete world domination and complete control of every person on this planet!!!
Disgusting. I pulled Roblox from the kids "toolbox" very soon. I'm sad I had then ever getting into that cesspool, but digital things where evolving at that time. Not an excuse, but a warning about other things on our way. Peace, y'all.
When I was a kid, fifty plus years ago, my parents wouldn’t let me play with certain kids, watch certain movies, or go to certain parties because they could be a bad influence on me.
My question is,
Where are the parents ???
Parents are on Facebook or other social media. Parent use these games and other internet platforms to serve as “ baby sitters” while they have their own free time. Most of it unmonitored and in separate rooms with no over site. Most parents have no idea really what their kids see or listen to. We have a generation since 2000 that have little to no parenting and respect, manners and social skills are poor in schools, work and even most family homes.
We did the same with television
I hate to see how the future will look like with this "workforce".
My parents got me interested in languages and literature, and encouraged me to do well in school. Thanks to that, even when puberty hit I never shared my peers' obsession with getting drunk and high and whatnot. Frankly, I found their shenanigans boring and repetitive; a waste of time.
When you nurture your kids' inner world, and show them what they can achieve when they apply themselves, not many will throw that away for some fleeting thrill.
Martin you had some great parents.
Parents that help their children to get involved in positive activities and interactions that help them grow and mature is a wonderful gift.
I’m glad to hear that you received such a gift !!!
They’re over at their friend’s house, looking at their friend’s iPhone or iPad, and lying to their own parents. Pretty simple actually, if you’ve had kids in the last 20 years. It’s impossible to keep them from seeing this stuff. They all have devices. They all figure out pretty quickly how to uninstall or get around any software to block stuff we don’t want them to see. Speaking from experience.
Yes, it’s far more difficult to be a parent and raise children now.
True.
But parents often don't try as hard now, either.
Many of them have their own screen addictions to deal with.
I don’t disagree, but the predators are the filthy, vile scum that prey upon children that should be held accountable for their disgusting, evil criminal behavior/actions. Too many are blaming the parents and saying nothing about the vile creatures that harm children.
Children are precious and must be protected.
100%
So do protect them and TALK to them TALK to them Talk to them.
That’s just a list of excuses. To say that parents have no control over their child’s life is bullshit. Does it take effort? Yup. Does anyone remember what the words ‘personal responsibility’ mean?
Ok Cathleen, do you have kids right now? Do you have boys over the age of 8?
And who is buying those devices and who can take away those devices?
All their friends have them. They will see everything. The Genie is out of the bottle. We need to manage that reality and quit believing we can out the genie back in the bottle. I don’t like it either. I watched my kids live through this huge change in our lives. It sucks but you can’t delude yourself into thinking you can keep your kid in a bubble. You can’t.
Same upbringing. My parents knew everything I was doing and not doing. Life was indeed simpler then but I would bet my life on the fact that if I were 5 years old today, my parents would raise me the exact same way they did in the 70s.
You are a parent first, second, and third…being a friend happens once you’ve completely handled the first three.
My parents would do exactly the same as well.
Your last paragraph says it all so perfectly that I would agree with that statement 100%.
In my view that is one of the biggest problems with a lot of parents these days.
They want to be friends with their children and not parents.
Excellent comment and observation !!!
Aww…thanks!
Growing up I had a friend that could not watch the Three Stooges because her parents considered it violent and a bad influence.
Funny you mentioned that TV show. My mother didn’t want us watching it either along with pro wrestling for the same reasons. I don’t think she thought it was a good idea for us to think we could go around poking or punching our friends in the face etc.
Me and my friends grew up watching them and we knew full well it was fake violence for comedy's sake. None of us ever got poked in the eye or poked anyone in the eye. The stooges were brilliant for satire and double-entendres.
Synickel
Sounds like you and your friends were a little smarter than I was. I did appreciate their comedy when I was older.
Curly was always my favorite.
Thanks for the reply and adding to my comment.
My mom didn't like me watching it either, but she reluctantly capitulated, tho she had tactics to distract from it. Curly was my favorite too. We guys used to do all his sounds and signs. Probably was really annoying to everyone else.
My husband has a curly t-shirt that I absolutely abhor. He wears it in public. And he can still make all the noises.
I agree. I was never told not to watch it, but I knew those parts on the show were not normal to do to anyone. Some kids are easily influenced by shows and playing violent video games. Others are not. But parents should let their children know what shows they feel are not suitable for them. Or block them.
Good points.
Parents have to continue to reinforce proper behaviors with appropriate boundaries and instruction while their children are young so they can hopefully become responsible adult's.
Great comments Carol !!! Thanks for adding to the conversation.
You're welcome! Even as adults we are still learning many things. Too bad they won't stop all the filth and violence across-the-board entirely.
we weren’t allowed to watch it for the same reason. or batman and robin (the live one, not the cartoon). Weren’t allowed to have Barbies for the longest time because they promoted an unrealistic body image. My brothers weren’t allowed to play football because of the possibility of head injury. We thought our mom was crazy. But really she was ahead of her time in these areas.
The Three Stooges is violent. Kids copy, and when they do so it is often without any sense of right or wrong, which I assume your parents taught you.
I know some kids do copy. I didn't. I knew it wasn't normal to do some of the things they did...pulling hair out, poking in the eyes, etc. I had common sense to know that people shouldn't do that to anyone. Aside from the violent parts, I did like the show. But I didn't watch it all the time either. As kids, we played outside as much as we could. We didn't want to come when it turned dark. Now many kids are glued to the TV, video games, and social media. Technology is not good in my opinion. We were better off before all this came into existence.
It's actually quite a challenge to always be on top of every single thing our kiddo is watching/playing. We definitely monitor the time and know what games are played, but with the vast array of servers and variations, it can be a challenge to stay on top of it all.
Requires a lot of vigilance.
Not excusing whatsoever.
I don’t have any children and it is easy to be an armchair quarterback sometimes. I do hear the stories from family and friends and I realize it can be a challenge. Plus I was a little wild and wooly as a young boy and now can understand it from that point of view.
Thanks for the reply and adding to the conversation.
Good points made !!!
Buying phones to babysit their children so they can not be parents :)
Poking at their own phone. And the kids have no idea what THEY are watching either.
Good point Nancy !!!
PARENTS SHOULD POST THIS- EVERYWHERE, ESPECIALLY SOCIALS- MOMS,GET THIS EVERYWHERE - ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC - BUT YOU CAN HELP STOP IT.
Even ones like myself that don’t have any children can help too.
Excellent idea and advice !!!
Thanks for generating some conversation. A relevant topic for sure. Parents don't realize giving their kids a phone means they OK with inviting every kind of person from all over the globe into their home. And worse, often into their child's room.... unattended. Great question, that none have a complete and sensible answer to.
Nancy
Great point !!!
I would think that if a person, the parent didn’t know, just showed up at their door they wouldn’t just let them in. And yet that’s exactly what they are doing leaving their children unsupervised.
Thanks for adding this important point to the conversation.
Well done indeed !!!
Where is the FCC ? Is it no longer functional ?
The FCC is controlled by the industries/entities that it is supposed to be regulating!!
That is exactly what we figured out during our investigation into child exploitation. We reported a dozen sites that were openly marketing underage porn in chat rooms for kids and grooming kids into producing paid content. The FCC and FBI did nothing. All of these sites are still front page on Google for the search term 'teen chat rooms'. Nothing changes because they do not want it to change. Our government is filled with pedophiles now.
And the ‘lead dog’ pedophile, who himself has paid out more than $35 MILLION to keep his pedophilia crimes silent, is in the White House clearing the way for pedophiles everywhere!!!!!
The worst part of the entire Trump thing, there are millions of Americans, people that claim they are Christian, who believe Trump was literally ‘sent by God’ to clean up America. They are too daft to recognize that this Russiagate scandal conveniently hit the news right at the apex of people questioning his involvement in the Epstein case and why the FBI reneged on their claim they had the files and names and were releasing them all only to tell the world it never existed a few months later. It is classic diversion tactics and these people are too brainwashed to recognize it. Ya know who else nationalized police in a response to a ‘criminal emergency’? Hitler and Hugo Chavez both did before they took dictatorial control of Germany and Venezuela. Trump is following their playbook to such a literal “T” that I cannot help but speak out about it and now I am getting hate mail every day from people calling me a ‘Democrat retard’. I have never voted Democrat in my entire life. I am a staunch Conservative that either votes Republican or Libertarian and always have since I turned 18. These people are freaking mental. They literally think Trump was sent by GOD. I mean, you cannot make this up. This is the sort of thing that happens when people’s brains are so fried from media overloads and poison in our food supply and lack of any intellectually stimulating activity beyond shit-posting online make up the majority of voters. I don’t know what to do honestly. If I am right, and by God I hope I am not, and Trump is aiming for a coup - I will have maybe 24 hours to get the Hell out of the USA before I end up in a death camp. I am a Hebrew but not the Zionist kind so I am ostracized there, I have always been publishing anti-government literature for 20 years, and vocally speaking out against Freemasonry for the last 5. I am not well liked. I am the exact sort of person they want out of the picture because I am intelligent enough to know that if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and swims like a duck - it is a fucking duck.
If you look at the actions of Hitler before and after coming to power, it is like Trump is following Hitler’s ‘playbook’ word for word.
The saddest part of all, is that there are millions of Americans, like many of the German people, that were just like Sheeple following each other to the slaughterhouse!!
None of the alphabet government agencies do any good. More to the point: your question implies that the government is supposed to be your ‘mommy’. People need to take their lives, and those of their children, into their own hands.
Thanks. I am sick of people crying for the nanny state to protect them. Right now the totalitarians are working on age verification to "save the children," a bi-partisan effort that lets a government agency decide what speech is concerning online, rather than require parents have better tools to protect their children themselves.
I really think this crap is literally opening up demonic portals straight to our children's brains. The entertainment value, the lights, colors, sounds....all of it is specifically made to be a "gateway drug" so to speak. When their brains get used to all of it and it starts to feel boring, then they feel comfortable going up to the next level of "entertainment", which is the pornography and pedophilia, and because they're children they don't even realize how manipulated they've been. They're not capable of understanding what's really going on and thus not capable of protecting themselves. Someday they'll understand and they'll thank you for protecting them.
Children are programmed-socialized into whatever environment they chance to be born into. When evil deviant behaviors become normalized in a society the children's neurological connections become set to believe evil behaviors are normal. If you are raised in a cannibalistic society you will be a cannibal. Changing one's mind-SELF-beliefs after childhood is difficult, but possible if one is exposed to opposing information.
What in the world? I didn’t even know this existed…
What in the insane world….not surprise anymore. I never heard of Roblox. Parents need to be more proactive because they pay the bills.
Thank you to Schlep for exposing this vile game and I pray that FBI and other police forces are currently undercover investigating the entire Roblox structure
I have always found it extremely disturbing that games like Minecraft and Roblox, clearly made for children, have been havens for adult males (and even females) to play on the same servers that kids as young as 5 spend hours a day on. I first noticed something off when Youtube celebrity influencers began making videos where they would do 'Minecraft Raids' on little kids servers and then break their hard work creations for a few laughs. I thought it was strange then. A few years later, a co-worker of mine, someone I had long suspected was involved in child exploitation due to a few creepy things he had told to me over lunch about 4chan and some meme icon named 'PedoBear' (which I learned is a symbol groomers of children use online to identify themselves to one another), mentioned to me how much he loves to play Roblox. I asked him, 'isn't that a kids game?' and he just smiled and said, 'of course'. I knew something was off even then. I ended up tracking down his Roblox account and pretended to be a 5 year old girl playing on the same server and began talking to him. Within a few days of our interactions beginning, he was asking for my 'real life' social media accounts, photos, phone number etc. I told him, 'I am 5 years old. My mom doesn't let me have that stuff.' and he replied, 'Well, you have a house phone, right?' I gave him the number to the FBI anonymous tip number for child predators. I recorded our entire interaction and then anonymously emailed it to our employer's HR department. He never showed up for work the following Monday. These sites are being used to groom children into sexual exploitation. We spent several months last year investigating multiple clearnet 'chat rooms for teens' (age 12-19) and what we found was extremely disturbing. Literal 'gangs' of online smut peddlers selling underage girl content on this sites which were filled with adult men looking to have cybersex and start relationships with girls. Even worse, many of these sites had active users whose job was to recruit young girls into working for their 'content farms' which pay thousands of dollars to teen girls (and to a lesser extend boys) to produce pornographic content for them to resell. Some of the girls we interviewed were even introduced to prostitution through their content marketing. If you are interested in learning more, check out the article here - https://wisewolfmedia.substack.com/p/the-digital-meat-market
Wow 🤯
It was such a horrible few months of research. I had to go see a psychiatrist towards the end because I developed PTSD after I started getting death threats because of my investigation. I am still scarred from it and all the sites we investigated, every single one of them still operates and appears front page on Google when you search 'teen chat rooms'. The worst offender, an app called 'Kik' is one of the most downloaded chat apps on the Google Playstore and is so rife with illegal content, drugs, etc that I cannot understand how the company behind it cannot be aware of what their app is really being used for. I suppose they don't really care that the product they coded is being used to push underage porn and drugs to whomever is willing to throw a few crypto coins to the sellers as long as they are getting them sweet, sweet download metrics that are pushing their stock prices through the roof until they can sell their company out to a bigger fish in the sewage sea for a few hundred million and retire to Thailand with their harem of 14 year olds... The internet is disgusting now. It was not like this until smartphones democratized it. Now every sick bastard on the planet has a phone and can access the internet and live out all their disgusting fantasies.
Having kids, it really hit home. The whole thing is truly a deep seated evil invading the planet. And the callousness of the girls I mean wow again. Holy shit.
The one girl we spoke with, she was 16 at the time, which is technically legal age of consent in the UK (but she had begun making and selling content years prior to this) told us, ‘I make more money than my parents. Why should I waste the best years of my life working when I can be a millionaire by 18?’ 16 years old. I felt horrible. I wish I had had her real name so I could have tracked down her parents to tell them what she was doing but she was smart. She made sure to keep everything she said anonymous.
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As a Brit I have to assume that the FCC is a department of federal government?
If that is the case do Americans abandon their parental responsibilities these days and expect the government to step in and take over the safety of their children?
As the parent of 2 boys (now adults) if a paedophile had attempted an improper relationship with my kids they'd be dead. Just for trying.
I mean DEAD.
....yada, yada, yada, blah, blah, blah.....tough talk there, Keyboard Warrior....i"m baking in my shoots.... Your "Gov't" jails decent folks who post memes, then they protect Paki rape gangs. You have NO credibility on this issue here in Trump's America....
Tell me where you'd like to meet?
My "government" is a disgrace. How are their actions my responsibility?
My criticism is not of the government - it's of the parents...
You - on the other hand - appear to side with the predators...? Maybe you should keep your head down a bit lest some of the decent parents in your part of the world decide to pay you a visit.
DUDE! Do you (mis-)take everything so PERSONALLY? Do you mis-interpret everything you read? I'm slagging on Starmer, et al, NOT personally blaming you! What, you have a guilty conscience? Go look in the mirror! Your ridiculous and blatantly false allegation that I "side with pedos" is wanker-level. Slag off, poofter!
Malcolm tell us Americans how the Brits are dealing with the rape gangs and the loss of British culture
Is it as bad as the videos we see
What do the regular people think
What about the crack down on speech that’s anti immigration and the loss of freedom of speech
Luke 17:2
It is better for him that a great millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
Millstone. Cliff. Depths of the sea.
It's not shocking because the world as we know it has shifted to a world that profanity is applauded.Clearly they are grooming to desensitize children on morality and considering these are teens and preteens with hormones out of control,they are the perfect prey.
It’s just like the bullies in high school that the school systems always protect, while dismissing, demeaning and ostracizing those who are being bullied!!
You can't tell your kids to go play at the Gates of Hell and expect them to be protected by the gatekeeper.
John Roberts got it right. The villains here are the absent, distracted, disengaged parents. Full stop.
So the predators that prey upon the children are not to blame? Disagree. The predators are still the worst, most vile scum that exists. The predators are the villains.
Parents need to be aware of what’s happening to protect their children. You blaming/shaming the parents is off-base.
Your logic is twisted and/or you’re justifying the acts of the predators because you are one of them.
Wow. I would never "justify the acts of predators". And I wouldn't let parents off the hook for not monitoring their children's associations. You've made a serious and unfounded accusation, though, for which you should apologize.
No, I’m not apologizing. My comment stands.
The predators are the ones that should be held accountable. Stop justifying the acts of those that prey upon children.
NOT ONLY the parents, Bucko....or PP, if you prefer....
Vile minds and forces have always preyed on the innocent. Parents need to remember their role in protecting children. It's the only realm in which they have ultimate power.
Sorry if my tone was too strong.... Most parents are ALSO victims in this....Please STOP playing the juvenile & pointless, ineffective, counter-productive "Blame Game"....ok?....thnx
The entire piece was assigning blame.
I gave up playing the stupid "Blame Game" years ago. Same with "fault". I don't care whose "fault" anything is. It's an irrelevant distraction. It's juvenile, and counter-productive. We need to target the bad guys, stop them, protect children, and do the right thing, NOT argue about whose fault it is! My point was, that there are MANY persons involved, who must ALL work together, to protect children..... Blaming & faulting don't help....
Pedocrats grooming kids. Take away their children and they be mad.
This IS NOT a democrat or a republican problem!!!!!
BOTH PARTYS are completely controlled by the global elites who are using their power and vast financial resources to control both party’s who in turn use their influence and power to control every person running for office to force them to comply and promote the global elites massive agenda for complete world domination and complete control of every person on this planet!!!
CEO looks like a perv!
And we all thought Tipper Gore was extreme back in the day.
Disgusting. I pulled Roblox from the kids "toolbox" very soon. I'm sad I had then ever getting into that cesspool, but digital things where evolving at that time. Not an excuse, but a warning about other things on our way. Peace, y'all.
Boycott Roblox, that's all that's needed. Put this filth out of business.