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My kids use it and it despise the platform. The chat function is set as everyone or no one. Any platform aimed at kids at a base level should have a friends only setting at the very least. It’s the most basic of safety features when providing a platform for children, and not having negates any argument that they care about child safety.

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Agreed on all fronts. I wish more pressure was applied at places like Apple over this.

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Yeah, I’m constantly having to push back against my kids and finally I had to say that people I read and trust their work say that Roblox is not a safe place for kids. And that finally got through to them. Set them up with Minecraft realms for them and their friends instead

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Nicely done! It goes back to the "consequences of saying no" question. It sounds like you've found an alternative that works without your kids feeling like you're stripping a personal space away from them. That's great.

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