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Roblox gets banned indefinitely in Turkey over “child exploitation”(www.dexerto.com)

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Reddit is better.@dormi.zone
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Sounds like a normal business that gives kids a chance to make money.

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The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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Its exploiting child labor and the impulsive brain chemistry of adolescence.

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themurphy@lemmy.ml
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Fair enough, but couldn’t the same be said about YouTube? They also take the biggest cut of the ad money for creators.

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The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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Yes. Using kids to drive engagement on YouTube is exploitative. Parents who do that are exploiting their children

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Reddit is better.@dormi.zone
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“labor” 😂

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The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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What would you call it when a child does work that you profit from?

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TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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Doesn’t matter what you call it. It’s profitable and you know that’s what’s meant.

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ZeroHora@lemmy.ml
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Is labor. There is a whole market of Roblox related things, there are job sites, freelance sites that employ kids to work on design/programming/marketing of these game modes. To pay them the game currency that maybe later can be traded for real money.

Is not just kids tinkering with the game.

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David From Space@orbiting.observer
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The children yearn for the mines

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mashbooq@lemmy.world
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A normal business, yes. Normal businesses are highly and cruelly exploitative, which is why we decided 80 years ago (in the US) that children, at the very least, should be protected from them.

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Summzashi@lemmy.one
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Can’t tell if you’re kidding.

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