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[๐Ÿ”ฅ Hot off the Feed] Louisiana Attorney General Sues Roblox Over Child Safety Failures

When growth trumps safety

๋ฃจ์ด์ง€์• ๋‚˜ ๋ฒ•๋ฌด์žฅ๊ด€, ์•„๋™ ์•ˆ์ „ ๋ฐฉ์น˜ ํ˜์˜๋กœ ๋กœ๋ธ”๋ก์Šค ์ œ์†Œ

์„ฑ์žฅ ์•ž์„ธ์šด ํ”Œ๋žซํผ, ์•ˆ์ „์€ ๋’ท์ „

๐Ÿ˜Ž ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ฃผ์ œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ์–˜๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋ฉด?

๐Ÿ‘‰ ์Šคํ„ฐ๋”” ์‹ ์ฒญ ๋งํฌ : https://forms.gle/6a6ou68a2YyLvnaMA

๐Ÿ‘‰ ์Šคํ„ฐ๋”” ๋ฌธ์˜ : https://open.kakao.com/me/insightsalon

๐Ÿ“Œ Context is King

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has filed a lawsuit against Roblox, accusing the gaming platform of becoming a โ€œperfect place for pedophilesโ€ due to its failure to implement basic safety measures. The lawsuit alleges that Roblox has facilitated the distribution of child sexual abuse material and allowed predators to exploit children.
๋ฃจ์ด์ง€์• ๋‚˜ ์ฃผ ๋ฒ•๋ฌด์žฅ๊ด€ ๋ฆฌ์ฆˆ ๋จธ๋ฆด์€ ๋กœ๋ธ”๋ก์Šค๋ฅผ ์ƒ๋Œ€๋กœ ์†Œ์†ก์„ ์ œ๊ธฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์•ˆ์ „ ์žฅ์น˜๋ฅผ ๋งˆ๋ จํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„ โ€œ์†Œ์•„์„ฑ์• ์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•œ ๋†€์ดํ„ฐโ€๊ฐ€ ๋๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ์†ก์€ ๋กœ๋ธ”๋ก์Šค๊ฐ€ ์•„๋™ ์„ฑ์ฐฉ์ทจ๋ฌผ ์œ ํ†ต์„ ์šฉ์ดํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๊ณ , ์•„๋™์ด ์„ฑ๋ฒ”์ฃ„์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋…ธ์ถœ๋˜๋„๋ก ๋ฐฉ์น˜ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ง€์ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Roblox, with 82 million daily active users, has a particularly young audience โ€” 40% of users are under the age of 12. The lawsuit highlights explicit user-created experiences, such as โ€œEscape to Epstein Islandโ€ and โ€œPublic Bathroom Simulator Vibe,โ€ as evidence of the platformโ€™s dangers.
์ผ์ผ ์ด์šฉ์ž 8,200๋งŒ ๋ช…์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•œ ๋กœ๋ธ”๋ก์Šค์˜ ์ด์šฉ์ž์ธต์€ ํŠนํžˆ ์–ด๋ฆฐ๋ฐ, ๊ทธ์ค‘ 40%๊ฐ€ 12์„ธ ์ดํ•˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ์†ก์€ โ€œ์—ก์Šคํƒ€์ธ ์•„์ผ๋žœ๋“œ ํƒˆ์ถœ(Escape to Epstein Island)โ€๊ณผ โ€œ๊ณต์ค‘ํ™”์žฅ์‹ค ์‹œ๋ฎฌ๋ ˆ์ดํ„ฐ ๋ฐ”์ด๋ธŒ(Public Bathroom Simulator Vibe)โ€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์„ฑ์  ๋…ธ๊ณจ์  ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๊ฐ€ ์กด์žฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ์ง€์ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์˜ ์œ„ํ—˜์„ฑ์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“ Note: COPPA (Childrenโ€™s Online Privacy Protection Act)

1. What it is
The Childrenโ€™s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) is a U.S. federal law enacted in 1998 to protect the personal information of children under the age of 13 online.
COPPA๋Š” 1998๋…„์— ์ œ์ •๋œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ, ๋งŒ 13์„ธ ๋ฏธ๋งŒ ์•„๋™์˜ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋งˆ๋ จ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

2. Key requirements
Websites and online services directed at children must obtain verifiable parental consent before collecting, using, or disclosing personal data (such as names, addresses, photos, or geolocation).
์•„๋™ ๋Œ€์ƒ ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธยท์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋Š” ๊ฐœ์ธ์ •๋ณด(์ด๋ฆ„, ์ฃผ์†Œ, ์‚ฌ์ง„, ์œ„์น˜ ์ •๋ณด ๋“ฑ)๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์ง‘ยท์ด์šฉยท๊ณต๊ฐœํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „ ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ๊ฒ€์ฆ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ชจ ๋™์˜๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์•„์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

3. Enforcement
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) enforces COPPA and has fined companies including YouTube, TikTok, and Epic Games for violations.
๋ฏธ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์œ„์›ํšŒ(FTC)๊ฐ€ COPPA๋ฅผ ์ง‘ํ–‰ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์œ ํŠœ๋ธŒยทํ‹ฑํ†กยท์—ํ”ฝ๊ฒŒ์ž„์ฆˆ ๋“ฑ์ด ์œ„๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ๊ณผ์ง•๊ธˆ์„ ๋ถ€๊ณผ๋ฐ›์€ ๋ฐ” ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

4. Why it matters for Roblox
Given Robloxโ€™s massive user base of children under 13, COPPA compliance is a central legal issue. The Louisiana lawsuit could test whether Robloxโ€™s safeguards are enough to meet COPPA standards.
๋กœ๋ธ”๋ก์Šค ์ด์šฉ์ž ์ค‘ ์ƒ๋‹น์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ 13์„ธ ๋ฏธ๋งŒ์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— COPPA ์ค€์ˆ˜ ์—ฌ๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๋ฒ•์  ์Ÿ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ฃจ์ด์ง€์• ๋‚˜ ์†Œ์†ก์€ ๋กœ๋ธ”๋ก์Šค์˜ ์•ˆ์ „ ์กฐ์น˜๊ฐ€ COPPA ๊ธฐ์ค€์„ ์ถฉ์กฑํ•˜๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ์‹œํ—˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ก€๊ฐ€ ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿงฉ IYKYK(If you know, you know)

  1. Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM, ์•„๋™ ์„ฑ์ฐฉ์ทจ๋ฌผ)
    โ†’ Illegal images/videos involving minors, heavily criminalized under U.S. law.
    โ†’ ๋ฏธ์„ฑ๋…„์ž๊ฐ€ ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถˆ๋ฒ• ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€ยท์˜์ƒ์œผ๋กœ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๋ฒ•์ƒ ์—„๊ฒฉํžˆ ์ฒ˜๋ฒŒ ๋Œ€์ƒ.

  2. Platform Liability (ํ”Œ๋žซํผ ์ฑ…์ž„)
    โ†’ Legal doctrine questioning how much responsibility a platform bears for user content.
    โ†’ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์ด ์ด์šฉ์ž ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์ฑ…์ž„์„ ์ ธ์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ฌป๋Š” ๋ฒ•์  ์›์น™.

  3. Unfair Trade Practices Act (๋ถ€๋‹น๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ํ–‰์œ„๋ฒ•)
    โ†’ Louisianaโ€™s law prohibiting deceptive or harmful business practices.
    โ†’ ๊ธฐ๋งŒ์ ยท์œ ํ•ดํ•œ ์˜์—…ํ–‰์œ„๋ฅผ ๊ธˆ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฃจ์ด์ง€์• ๋‚˜ ์ฃผ๋ฒ•.

๐Ÿง  In Focus

This lawsuit could become a landmark case for platform accountability in the U.S. While Roblox argues it deploys advanced technology and human moderators, regulators may view these safeguards as too little, too late. A judgment against Roblox could set precedent for how online platforms manage underage users.
์ด๋ฒˆ ์†Œ์†ก์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ ์ฑ…์ž„์„ ๊ฐ€๋ฅด๋Š” ์ค‘๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋กœ๋ธ”๋ก์Šค๋Š” ์ฒจ๋‹จ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ๊ณผ ์ธ๋ ฅ์„ ๋™์›ํ•ด ์•ˆ์ „์„ ์ง€ํ‚ค๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทœ์ œ ๋‹น๊ตญ์€ ์ด๋ฅผ โ€˜๋Šฆ์—ˆ๊ณ  ๋ถ€์กฑํ•˜๋‹คโ€™๊ณ  ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งŒ์•ฝ ๋กœ๋ธ”๋ก์Šค๊ฐ€ ํŒจ์†Œํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๋ฏธ์„ฑ๋…„ ์ด์šฉ์ž๋ฅผ ๋ณด์œ ํ•œ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ๋“ค์˜ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ๊ธฐ์ค€์— ์„ ๋ก€๊ฐ€ ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The timing is also critical: as governments worldwide scrutinize Big Tech, the case underscores a tension between growth-driven models and child safety. Robloxโ€™s dual identity โ€” part social network, part gaming hub โ€” makes it particularly vulnerable to exploitation, challenging the industryโ€™s ability to self-regulate.
๋˜ํ•œ ์ด๋ฒˆ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์€ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์‹œ์ ์— ํ„ฐ์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๋น…ํ…Œํฌ ๊ธฐ์—…์„ ์—„๊ฒฉํžˆ ๋“ค์—ฌ๋‹ค๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ, ์†Œ์†ก์€ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ค‘์‹ฌ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๋ชจ๋ธ๊ณผ ์•„๋™ ์•ˆ์ „ ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ๋ถ€๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ์…œ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ์ด์ž ๊ฒŒ์ž„ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋กœ๋ธ”๋ก์Šค์˜ ์ด์ค‘์  ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ์€ ์ฐฉ์ทจ ์œ„ํ—˜์„ ๋” ๋†’์ด๋ฉฐ, ์—…๊ณ„ ์ž์œจ๊ทœ์ œ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์— ๋„์ „์žฅ์„ ๋˜์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ—ฃ How They Talk About It

๐Ÿ“Œ predator risk(์„ฑ๋ฒ”์ฃ„์ž ์œ„ํ—˜)
โ€œRoblox has become the perfect place for predators to target children.โ€
โ€œ๋กœ๋ธ”๋ก์Šค๋Š” ์„ฑ๋ฒ”์ฃ„์ž๊ฐ€ ์•„๋™์„ ๋…ธ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ์— ์™„๋ฒฝํ•œ ์žฅ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.โ€

๐Ÿ“Œ inadequate safeguards(๋ถˆ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•œ ๋ณดํ˜ธ์žฅ์น˜)
โ€œRobloxโ€™s safety measures came too late and are wholly inadequate.โ€
โ€œ๋กœ๋ธ”๋ก์Šค์˜ ์•ˆ์ „ ์กฐ์น˜๋Š” ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋Šฆ์—ˆ๊ณ  ์ „์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ถˆ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•˜๋‹ค.โ€

๐Ÿ“Œ platform accountability(ํ”Œ๋žซํผ ์ฑ…์ž„)
โ€œThis lawsuit could redefine platform accountability for child safety online.โ€
โ€œ์ด๋ฒˆ ์†Œ์†ก์€ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ์•„๋™ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ ์ฑ…์ž„์„ ์ƒˆ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ๊ทœ์ •ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.โ€

๐Ÿ“Œ growth vs. safety(์„ฑ์žฅ ๋Œ€ ์•ˆ์ „)
โ€œRoblox prioritized growth over the safety of children.โ€
โ€œ๋กœ๋ธ”๋ก์Šค๋Š” ์•„๋™ ์•ˆ์ „๋ณด๋‹ค ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์šฐ์„ ์‹œํ–ˆ๋‹ค.โ€

๐Ÿ“Œ litigation precedent(์†Œ์†ก ์„ ๋ก€)
โ€œA ruling here may set precedent for future lawsuits against social platforms.โ€
โ€œ์ด๋ฒˆ ํŒ๊ฒฐ์€ ์†Œ์…œ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์„ ์ƒ๋Œ€๋กœ ํ•œ ํ–ฅํ›„ ์†Œ์†ก์˜ ์„ ๋ก€๊ฐ€ ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.โ€

๐Ÿงญ Discourse Watch

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
๐Ÿ“ฐ Media โ€“ TechCrunch and Bloomberg highlight the lawsuit as a potential flashpoint in child online safety regulation.
์–ธ๋ก  โ€“ ํ…Œํฌํฌ๋Ÿฐ์น˜์™€ ๋ธ”๋ฃธ๋ฒ„๊ทธ๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ์†Œ์†ก์„ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ์•„๋™ ์•ˆ์ „ ๊ทœ์ œ์˜ ๋ถ„์ˆ˜๋ น์ด ๋  ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์œผ๋กœ ์กฐ๋ช…ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ› Think Tanks โ€“ EFF and Brookings analysts warn that while safety is paramount, overly harsh liability rules could stifle online creativity.
์—ฐ๊ตฌ๊ธฐ๊ด€ โ€“ EFF์™€ ๋ธŒ๋ฃจํ‚น์Šค ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์›๋“ค์€ ์•ˆ์ „์ด ์ตœ์šฐ์„ ์ž„์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„, ์ง€๋‚˜์นœ ๋ฒ•์  ์ฑ…์ž„์ด ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ์ฐฝ์˜์„ฑ์„ ์œ„์ถ•์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ’ฌ Communities โ€“ Parents express outrage on social media, while some Roblox users defend the platform, arguing that predators exist everywhere online.
์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ โ€“ ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋“ค์€ ์†Œ์…œ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด์—์„œ ๋ถ„๋…ธ๋ฅผ ํ‘œ์ถœํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด, ์ผ๋ถ€ ๋กœ๋ธ”๋ก์Šค ์ด์šฉ์ž๋“ค์€ โ€œ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ์–ด๋””์—๋‚˜ ๋ฒ”์ฃ„์ž๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๋ฉฐ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์„ ์˜นํ˜ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐ŸŽฌ Outro

As Roblox faces the courtroom, the case raises a broader question: can online worlds for kids ever truly be safe?
๋ฒ•์ •์— ์„  ๋กœ๋ธ”๋ก์Šค๋ฅผ ๋‘๊ณ , ๋” ํฐ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์ œ๊ธฐ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„๋™์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋Š” ๊ณผ์—ฐ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?

๐Ÿ“… 1996 โ€“ The U.S. passed the Communications Decency Act, introducing Section 230, which shields platforms from liability for user content.
๐Ÿ“… 1996๋…„ โ€“ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ ํ†ต์‹ ํ’ˆ์œ„๋ฒ•์„ ์ œ์ •ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์ด ์ด์šฉ์ž ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ฑ…์ž„์„ ์ง€์ง€ ์•Š๋„๋ก ํ•˜๋Š” 230์กฐ๋ฅผ ๋„์ž…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿงพ Sources

  • "Louisiana Attorney General Sues Roblox Over Child Safety Failures" (TechCrunch, 2025)

  • "Roblox Faces Child Safety Backlash Despite New Safeguards" (Bloomberg, 2024)

  • "Section 230 and the Future of Platform Liability" (EFF, 2024)

  • "Kids and Online Safety: The Regulatory Dilemma" (Brookings, 2025)

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