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Hello out there on the internet.

I am Matthew Galt, and this is Cyber.

Last month, a hacker posted a trove stolen documents online detailing the weird,

internal struggles, pardon me everybody, of a little gaming company called Roblox.

If you don't know what Roblox is, just ask any child in America, and they will explain it to you.

The hacked documents contained fascinating insights into how gaming companies whose products depend on player freedom and creativity

must navigate the treacherous waters of children, free speech, China, mass shootings, and content

moderation. It's a weird story where a child-driven internet sandbox can lead to troubling

and weird questions about things like genocide roleplay. With me today, to talk about all of it is returning champion

motherboard staff writer Joseph Cox, J.C. Welcome back from the woods. Thanks, thanks for having me.

All right, so we're talking about Roblox today. Why Roblox, of all things that we could be talking about in this wide world?

I mean, Roblox might be dismissed as just a fun little children's game or gaming platform, whatever you want to call it.

But the reality is that, first of all, is one of the more interesting content moderation discussions that exist right now,

you know, probably more interesting than Facebook or Twitter or anything like that.

And that's in part because of the second point is that, you know, for all of what meta wants to do

or Facebook wants to do saying it wants to make the Metaverse, Roblox basically is it?

You know, you can make your own assets, make your own worlds, you move physically or virtually

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