- December 18, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
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This Week in Business is our weekly recap column, a collection of stats and quotes from recent stories presented with a dash of opinion (sometimes more than a dash) and intended to shed light on various trends. Check back every Friday for a new entry.
This week started with People Make Games releasing a second excellent video looking into Roblox and the company’s deeply fraught treatment of its younger users.
There’s a whole lot in there to take issue with, starting with the company’s appalling lack of interest in actually answering specific questions about its stock-market-like collectibles trading and lack of protections for children working for other creators. Instead, Roblox leaned on People Make Games to pull its original report and criticized the outlet for asking questions that were not objective, because Roblox apparently believes responsible journalism requires you to keep an open mind about the possibility that child…
