roblox.com
Deficient
Whether known and novel abuse material is found at all, and across which surfaces of the product.
Hash matching on publicly posted media
Uploaded assets pass through automated review before publication. [1]
Hash matching on private messages and attachments
Text chat is filtered. Filtering is oriented to blocking terms rather than detecting solicitation patterns. [1]
Classifier detection of previously unseen material
Classifier review is described for uploaded assets, not for in-experience conduct.
Detection applied to live and streamed video
Voice chat moderation is described as automated with sampling. No published detection rate. [1]
Detection of grooming and solicitation in text
Solicitation detection exists but is routinely defeated by moving the conversation to another platform, which is the documented pattern. [2]
Participation in industry hash-sharing programmes
Participates in industry hash-sharing arrangements.
What the operator tells NCMEC, law enforcement and the public, and whether those disclosures can be checked.
Publishes child-safety enforcement figures
Publishes a transparency report including child-safety categories. [1]
Report quality sufficient for investigation
Not assessed.
Reporting cadence and timeliness
Not assessed.
What happens after material is found: how fast it comes down, what happens to the account, and whether the decision can be contested.
Time to removal of confirmed material
No published latency figure.
Account termination on confirmed violation
Termination is the stated consequence.
Prevention of re-registration
Re-registration is trivial and is documented in reporting as routine among banned adults. [2]
Preservation of evidence
Preservation on request described.
Escalation of imminent-harm cases
An escalation path for imminent harm is described.
The design decisions that determine how much abuse is possible in the first place, before any detection is applied.
Protective defaults for minor accounts
Under-13 accounts carry restricted chat by default. Restrictions are keyed to a self-declared age. [1]
Restrictions on adult-initiated contact with minors
Adults and minors share experiences and communication surfaces by default. This is the central product decision and it has not changed. [2] [4]
Age assurance at registration
Age estimation is offered for some features and is not required at registration.
Recommendation systems assessed for minor-safety harm
Experience discovery has not been publicly assessed for whether it surfaces experiences built to attract and isolate minors. [4]
Encryption posture and stated mitigations
Communication is not end-to-end encrypted; server-side detection is available.
Published child-safety policy with defined enforcement
Community standards are published with stated consequences.
Documented failures, enforcement actions, litigation and investigative reporting bearing on the assessment above.
2024-10
Reporting documented a pattern in which adults contacted minors inside experiences and moved the conversation to external messaging platforms, and identified prosecutions following that pattern. [2]
2025-08
Multiple state attorneys general filed actions alleging that the product's design facilitated adult contact with minors and that the operator's safety representations were misleading. [4]
Roblox · 2025
Bloomberg · 2024-10
NCMEC · 2025
Illustrative placeholder · 2025-08
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