Turkey has blocked Roblox over child exploitation reports

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Turkey has blocked Roblox over child exploitation reports

Just five days after blocking

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, Turkey has banned Roblox over reports of inappropriate ******* content perceived as exploiting children,

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reported. An official from the Türkiye Directorate of Communications also cited “promotion of homosexuality” and incentives for children via the game’s Robux virtual currency as reasons for the ban.

The regulator also said that monitoring content on Roblox is a significant challenge. The countrywide restrictions were imposed following an investigation by the chief public prosecutor’s office.

Last week,

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was blocked in in the country following a dispute over ******-related content on the platform. Turkey’s head of communications stated in

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on X that

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was “actively preventing people from posting messages of condolences” for Ismail Haniyeh, the ****** leader who was ******* earlier this week.

Turkish authorities have banned major social media services before.

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was briefly blocked in the country last year following an earthquake that ******* thousands of people.

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and

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were also blocked

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Roblox has had its own problems, particularly around complaints of child exploitation. Earlier this year, the company was

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accusing it of exploiting child labor and deceptive advertising. The company was also

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for allowing ****** users to ********* prey on a 10-year-old girl. Discord, Snap and Meta were also named in that suit.

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