{"id":80809,"date":"2025-12-12T12:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T12:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/80809\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T12:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T12:09:14","slug":"florida-sues-roblox-accuses-platform-of-letting-predators-target-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/80809\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida sues Roblox, accuses platform of letting predators target children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A legal battle is building after the state of Florida filed a lawsuit against gaming platform Roblox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The lawsuit alleges that the platform misrepresents its safety and allows predators to target children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Florida\u2019s Attorney General James Uthmeier announced the lawsuit, stating that Roblox aggressively markets to young children but fails to protect them from sexual predators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The state is the first in the nation to conduct a criminal investigation into Roblox regarding these allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cRoblox aggressively markets to young children but fails to protect them from sexual predators,\u201d Uthmeier said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The lawsuit claims that predators are openly grooming and targeting children on Roblox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A legal battle is building after the state of Florida filed a lawsuit against gaming platform Roblox. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,4260,40295,11374,9459,17869],"class_list":{"0":"post-80809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-news","11":"tag-james-uthmeier","12":"tag-legal-battle","13":"tag-predators","14":"tag-roblox","15":"tag-sexual-predators"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}