172

Attorneys say the child waived her rights by agreeing to Roblox’s “Terms of Service” at least 28 times.


I am from Kentucky and just saw this, thought it would be worth sharing on Lemmy. Feel free to crosspost wherever you see fit, it would be nice to at least spread awareness for the situation.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] modernangel@sh.itjust.works 49 points 2 days ago

Of course they will try that tack, the question is will the judge go along with it. Needless to say an 8 year old cannot waive their rights, it would make nonsense of consent law.

[-] setsubyou@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Focusing on the 8 year old is disingenuous. The news reports do that because it gets more clicks. But in this case, the mother also made an account for herself, also agreed to all their terms, set her account up as a parent account for her child’s account, and then explicitly disabled the safeguards like the child not being able to chat. What the 8 year old did doesn’t matter.

this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2026
172 points (98.3% liked)

World News

57792 readers
1084 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world

Ask Historians !askhistorians@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS