Russia Blocks Gaming Platform Roblox Over Child Safety Concerns

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A child adds a face mask to her character on the Roblox game platform at her home in Manchester, England, on April 5, 2020. Phil Noble/ReutersRussia’s telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor has blocked Roblox, a U.S. gaming platform popular with children, accusing it of allowing the dissemination of extremist materials and “LGBT propaganda.”Roskomnadzor on Dec. 3 told reporters it had restricted user access “over registered facts of massive and repeated dissemination of materials with propaganda and justification of extremist and terrorist activities, calls for committing illegal violent actions and LGBT propaganda,” according to Russian news agency Interfax.

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