So that's why he lets children became nazis there? That's why he lets pedophiles roaming freely? That's why his company added predatory monetization?
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Because government and society are not a fucking video game you pretentious jackass.
The world you built is proper shit. That's why.
Yeah, Roblox sucks.
Right proper doo doo Benny
The development of AI came from our stolen personal data. Why shouldn't we communalise it?
Silicon Valley built all the worst parts of the modern world. Most of the genuinely useful discoveries and technological innovations were made in govt funded academia, and co-opted by industry into creepy ways to control whole populations
Did he donate to Trump? Would we see federal institutions paying workers robux?
@altkey seems like they didn't, but i doubt it
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/roblox-corp/summary?id=D000088734
Roblox is the perfect example of everything that is wrong with capitalism
What? What's not to like about child slave-wage labor making tiny games for other children, whilst making the company infinite money all the time? /s
A world run by Roblox would mean worldwide child labor, getting paid in company scrip and widespread abuse. That's why you shouldn't run it, asswipe.
Didn't DARPA and University research and a shitload of public funding technically build the modern world?
Odd, because a huge part of the problem is that Silicon Valley is running too much of the modern world. Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Amazon, Google et al run their respective ecosystems as a de facto government. An unelected and undemocratic government.
That's why in spite of protests against Trump, we should not forget the true power behind the throne, the ones who actually pull the strings. Trump is only the patsi. This isn't fascism in the traditional sense where one man runs the show, it is the faceless oligarchs who do.
I think that's why it is crucial to also include the anti-oligarchy message alongside the "no kings" messaging.
They're not running it, they're taking giant narcissistic shits all over it.
The shits are of type running
Judging by the rate at which every commercial piece of technology that exists gets enshitified nowadays, I don't think they should be the ones building the modern world either.
We're going to discover that "move fast and break stuff" wasn't even truly a strategy that worked to build success in Silicon Valley for anything other than extracting investor money.
Silicon Valley built the modern world.
Why shouldn't we ruin it?
I think it was a typo. I put the “i” back in.
Arguably, they have ruined it.
Someone ask if those fucks wanna see how much of the modern world was actually built by China? Wanna let them run it instead?
Hahaha get the guillotines out.
... in Roblox
I'm pretty sure that if we fed a handful of fascist billionaires to a wood chipper, the rest would be much easier to manage.
If we fed every CEO of a Fortune 500 company into a wood chipper the only effect on the world would be fertilizing some plants.
We can't know that until we try
I didn't even think they would make a good fertilizer, just shove them in a can and fire them at a black hole, see if that eats them up.
It wouldn't even want them. Watch as it regrets its mistake and chucks them back up as Hawking radiation.
i'd pay for tickets to that event.
Free attendance, although you might have to bring binoculars since half the planet would probably show up to cheer
We design and build the wood chippers too, so I don't see why we shouldn't.
If any Amazon needs to be pulped...
Silicon Valley built the modern world
Ofcom urged to act after US firm claims Roblox is ‘paedophile hellscape’
Explains a lot
Yeah, because Roblox is the model we want to shape society after. The fucking hubris is of the charts with these arseholes.
Oh, you mean the guy who invented the thing that works on child labor, takes children’s pocket money and exposes them to predators?
And unregulated gambling. Can't forget the whole item market aspect, where goods trade for higher and lower value based on speculation and demand like real-world securities do.
Oh, you mean the guy who invented the thing that works on child labor, takes children’s pocket money and exposes them to predators?
Oof. That doesn't narrow down who we're talking about nearly as much as it should.
shitheel.
silicon valley didn't do anything but make money off the internet.
we, WE, fucking made the internet.
You'd really think people would look at the state of the world and try to wash their hands of responsibility, not take credit. Just how out of touch is Mr child exploitation.
It's a small comfort that even Twitter is giving this take the reception it deserves.
It's a small comfort that even Twitter is giving this take the reception it deserves.
It's kind of wholesome. People coming together to tell the guy who built a child-exploiting, underaged-gambling "game" for kids to get fucked brings a tear to my eye.
Founding Roblox isn’t exactly building the interstate highway system, creating antibiotics, or inventing the telephone, John.
And look where it's gotten us. Drunk on arrogance and the suffering of millions
You made Roblox in order to monetize children's naivety. We're not giving you the nuclear codes for shit
Because you're a bunch of sociopaths with a Messiah complex
You build a giant ad platform and called it innovation. You're modern day carnival barkers. Go fuck yourself
Hot take: Dropping a single nuclear bomb over Silicon Valley would solve most of the world's issues
Hot take. No, like actually atom-smashingly hot lol
These are the mfs we need to do something about
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