The roblock platform enables people to buy games. It has this kind of weird legal defence that it's not selling games, it's sucly selling what it calls experiences. Any one can make games on roboks and then sell packages within those games in order to make money designing games for robots. And every year that passes, roblock is paying more and more millions of dollars out to young people who are making games for the platform.
Paris Marx is joined by Quintin Smith to discuss how Roblox profits from the labor of children, built an exploitative in-game economy, and needs to be regulated as soon as possible.
Quintin Smith is a journalist working with People Make Games and Shut Up & Sit Down. Follow Quintin on Twitter at @Quinns108.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.
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