Why don't I just have you actually introduce yourself?

Tell my listeners who you are.

Sure.

My name is Mike Hildgers, and I am the, currently am the Nebraska Attorney General.

Hilders has four kids.

He's a Republican.

And he's one of seven state attorneys general suing the online gaming platform Roblox.

Roblox has about 150 million daily active users, and about 40% of those users are under 13.

In the app store, Roblox is rated for age 13 and up. But let's be honest,

kids play Roblox. Multiple investigations by various news outlets and state AG's offices have found child predators on the platform. In 2024, Bloomberg News found that police in the U.S. had arrested at least two dozen

people in the previous six years for abducting or abusing victims they'd met on Roblox.

Tell me why you have decided to sue Roblox.

Well, social media, social media games are one of the most important issues I think facing

Nebraska's. If you've left, if you've read the book, Asian Generation from Jonathan Haidt,

you understand sort of like the issues that these are posing for policymakers and for parents.

By the way, I'm a father of four. I know. And so we've been heavily engaged in the space

with TikTok, meta. We sued both those

companies. Roblox poses really two specific issues that we're very concerned about. The first issue

is an issue that we do see with other social media companies or social media adjacent companies.

And that is just the availability of extremely inappropriate content that is made

available to really young kids. In the Roblox context, we've seen games or experiences, which is

how this site works, that allow a six-year-old to go to a replica of Jeffrey Epstein's island.

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