Roblox responds to LA County lawsuit, the latest of many alleging the game fails to protect children from predators: 'While no system can be perfect, our commitment to safety never ends'

Roblox responds to LA County lawsuit, the latest of many alleging the game fails to protect children from predators: ‘While no system can be perfect, our commitment to safety never ends’ | PC Gamer Skip to main content Open menu Close main menu PC Gamer THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES US Edition UK US Canada Australia Subscribe Sign in View Profile Sign out Search Search PC Gamer Games Hardware News Reviews Guides Video Forum More PC Gaming Show PC Gamer Clips Software Codes Coupons Movies & TV Magazine Newsletter Affiliate links Meet the team Community guidelines About PC Gamer PC Gamer Magazine SubscriptionWhy subscribe?Subscribe to the world’s #1 PC gaming magTry a single issue or save on a subscriptionIssues delivered straight to your door or device From$1Subscribe now Don’t miss these Third Person Shooter Arc Raiders’ matchmaking isn’t ‘binary’, says design lead: ‘There’s no such thing as a friendly lobby or an aggressive lobby’ AI ‘No platform gets a free pass’: UK government’s Online Safety Act rules extending to chatbots after Grok fallout Platforms Oh, good: Discord’s age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel Software Discord will decide which servers to age-gate ‘with a combination of automated detection with AI validation and human review’ Gaming Industry Videogames are ‘losing in the War for Attention’: Analyst says many of the industry’s biggest markets are spending less time on gaming Security Security researchers claim Persona, the provider behind Discord’s UK age verification ‘experiment’, performs ‘269 individual verification checks’ on user data, including those for terrorism and espionage Hardware TeamSpeak claims an ‘incredible surge of new users’ has maxed out its hosting capacity in multiple regions as many would-be voice chatters seek a Discord alternative Sim Easy Anti-Cheat is coming to Rocket League, but Psyonix promises not to get all Fortnite with it and hose your Steam Deck and Linux installs Games Stop Killing Games is launching NGOs in the European Union and the US: ‘We’re not just going away on this’ AI Judging by the GPT-4o situation, game developers will have a big problem if they get serious about AI chatbot NPCs Third Person Shooter ‘Arc Raiders is almost like a social experiment’: Embark Studios’ CEO reveals a neurology professor encouraged him to submit the game for scientific testing to study player behaviour FPS Black Ops 7 ad banned in the UK for ‘trivializing sexual violence’ Third Person Shooter Duck dupe criminals nabbed: Embark is dishing out warnings and even ban hammers for miscreants abusing recent duplication glitches in Arc Raiders FPS Laid-off Highguard developer cuts loose on the reaction to the infamous Game Awards reveal trailer: ‘We were turned into a joke from minute one’ Games Discord is rolling out facial scanning and ID checks globally in March for users who don’t want to be locked into a ‘teen-appropriate experience’ PopularNEW: PC Gamer Clips!Arc RaidersBest PC gearFalloutGame Quizzes Gaming Industry Roblox Roblox responds to LA County lawsuit, the latest of many alleging the game fails to protect children from predators: ‘While no system can be perfect, our commitment to safety never ends’ News By Justin Wagner published 22 February 2026 The civil suit calls Roblox’s online social space “largely unsupervised.” When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. 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The trauma that results is horrific, from grooming, to exploitation, to actual assault. This needs to stop.” The complaint can be read in full here.This is not the first time Roblox has caught this sort of heat. A class action suit back in 2023 sought to combat a “misperception that Roblox is safe” for children, saying widespread sexual content and grooming are serious issues in the game. Related articles After its teen social media ban, Australia is swooping on Roblox following ‘ongoing concerns about online child grooming’ Russia bans Roblox over extremist content and ‘LGBT propaganda’ Tumbler Ridge mass murderer once created a mass shooting game in Roblox In one harrowing case, a pedophile abducted and sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl after groom