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Roblox has plans to implement AI to guess user ages but the Australian Labour Government thinks more should be done to protect young people and that the current solution offered by Roblox is insufficient. There is still debate for whether or not Roblox should count as "social media" and be included in the new age restriction laws.
Roblox rolling out new safety measures to stop kids chatting with adults has done little to win favour with Labor, with the Albanese government saying all digital platforms should be proactively protecting "young Australians".
[...] The new measurers, which start in the first week of December, include age-based chats that restrict players from speaking to people outside their age group.
[...] Despite having social elements, Roblox insists it is not a social media.
The eSafety Commissioner agrees but is reviewing whether to include it in the social media ban.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by VLM on Monday December 01, @03:40PM
Take out the chat.
I did an online degree, graduated in the mid 00s, and it was interesting to compare with my kids "covid vacation" online classes around 2020.
"Back in the day" online school software had to include everything. I don't remember a full office suite but we definitely had email and chat and video conferencing and a calendar system and and and.
My kids had much more modern basically a wiki with a login, and if you needed to email an assignment to the teacher you went off platform and used ... real email. Or if you needed to video conference in a team project, instead of using the platform's shitty conference system you went off platform and used ... real video conferencing apps.
My guess is in the long run the meme of "all video games must include a shitty partial clone of Discord" will go away and games will be games and you'll use a chat program if you want to chat. Maybe with an integration. But "all games must have their own shitty chat system" is lame.