Türkiye Bans Roblox

> Sexual exploitation concerns > Promotion of homosexuality > Incentives for children through virtual currency

The official also highlighted issues with “robux,” Roblox’s virtual currency. Reports indicated that bot accounts were distributing robux to incentivize children’s participation in the aforementioned problematic activities. Challenges in content oversight

> The inability to effectively monitor and regulate inappropriate content on Roblox

The homosexuality part is kind of absurd, but very in line with other Türkiye policies.

For the rest they seem very reasonable. Predatory monetization methods in games for adults are bad, applying the same methods to children is pure evil.

I will prefer strong regulations than banning. The same the we do with gambling.

Turkey by the way also blocks porn. This is surprising for tourists, but at the same time not surprising for a predominantly Muslim country.

On the other hand, Turkey might do well to look at Robux as a model for a stable currency.

It seems that there is a persistent desire to call the country whatever you are used to. As a Turkish, I would add the points: You can call it whatever you want. Turkey is the historical name of the region. I believe the bird's name was also adopted from the fact that the bird came to Western world through Turkiye. The bird comes to us from India, so we call it "Hindi" in Turkish. I hope India one day does not change its name to something else because they don't want to be associated with what other people call them. Oh wait, they call themselves as Bharat(a) actually. In Turkish, the word "spice" is called "Baharat". Go figure.

Another important point for people who want to dead name Turkiye is this: When South Sudan was separate from Sudan, they were called South Sudan. Nobody disputed their name. If Turkiye split in two one day, one might call itself "Eastern Turkiye". In that case I just hope nobody tells them, 'no I will call you "Eastern Turkey" because that's what the other country was called which you were part of before.' We are not called "Ottoman Kingdom 2.0" for some reason. Now we apparently chose ourselves a new name to be referred in foreign languages. They did not consult me, tbh. But it fits what we call it in our original language (we call it "Türkiye"), so I am actually happy about it. So if you show respect to that decision then you show that as it is. If you don't respect it then, well you don't, and that's that. No kebap for you (/s).

About Roblox: My nephew coming of age invited me to play computer games. He told me to install Roblox but I haven't even heard about it and it did not appeal to me. I told him to install Sven-Co-op, because Half-Life is awesome and Sven Co-Op gives you multiplayer feature for free. We played for a while but he was dead bored and he quit. I was genuinely hurt but did not show it. New generation likes other things I guess. Then we played Roblox and honestly it had worse graphics than Half-Life, which is 25 years old game. Somehow it was boring to me but enjoyable to my Gen Z nephew. Well I hope he won't get too hardly shaken by the news, anyhow, somehow I feel relieved about this ban. These days he talks about "making his own games". I want to wait until a bit before I tell him the bad news about making games, but in general I am happy about the direction he is thinking.