Why Is Roblox Shielding Child Predators? - WAN Show August 15, 2025

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0:00.0	What's up everybody and welcome to the WAN show?
0:09.6	We've got a great show lined up for you guys this week.
0:12.1	Roblox sent a cease and desist letter to a YouTuber for hunting child predators on their platform.
0:22.3	Wow, that is a little awkward.
0:26.8	Also, PayPal is not Steam's buddy friend.
0:31.5	So the whole thing where payment processors are allegedly dictating to gaming platforms what type of content
0:40.5	they're allowed to sell has escalated what else we got going on this week youtube has started to
0:45.9	roll out a age verification AI model uh because the the future is fun and that won't be easy to work around at all.
0:55.1	Can you pick something that's good news?
0:58.2	Let me see.
0:59.1	I mean, I know I didn't.
1:00.4	Yeah.
1:01.2	That's why it's your job.
1:03.0	That's a bad one.
1:04.3	That one's overall kind of negative.
1:06.9	That literally says massive step backwards in the title.
1:14.2	I don't care about that at all.
1:15.7	I don't know if anyone does.
1:17.8	This sucks.
1:18.9	That's a bad thing.
1:20.2	That's not a good thing.
1:24.5	You have to pick one.
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