Texas sues Roblox, alleging the net gaming platform endangers youngsters

by Eleanor Klibanoff, The Texas Tribune
November 7, 2025

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the net gaming platform Roblox for allegedly exposing youngsters to sexually specific content material and exploitation, the newest in a flurry of lawsuits from his workplace geared toward big business.

Texas is the third state to sue Roblox, after Kentucky and Louisiana, on the grounds that the corporate isn’t sufficiently defending minors. Dozens of personal fits have been filed in the previous few months as properly, primarily by households who say their youngsters have been sexually abused, exploited or uncovered to inappropriate content material whereas utilizing the gaming platform.

On Thursday, a California judge ruled {that a} high-profile lawsuit in opposition to Roblox should proceed within the public eye, after the corporate tried to deal with it in personal arbitration.

In a press release, Roblox stated it shares Paxton’s dedication to preserving children and youths secure on-line and pointed to “industry-leading protocols” it had employed to guard customers.

“We are disappointed that, rather than working collaboratively with Roblox on this industry-wide challenge and seeking real solutions, the AG has chosen to file a lawsuit based on misrepresentations and sensationalized claims,” a spokesperson stated in a press release.

Paxton, who’s operating to unseat U.S. Sen. John Cornyn in subsequent 12 months’s GOP major, stated the platform had turn out to be a “digital playground for predators where the well-being of our kids is sacrificed on the altar of corporate greed.”

“Roblox must do more to protect kids from sick and twisted freaks hiding behind a screen,” Paxton stated in a press release. “Any corporation that enables child abuse will face the full and unrelenting force of the law.”

In 2023, Texas lawmakers strengthened legal guidelines requiring social media platforms to guard minors from inappropriate content material on-line. That laws continues to be preventing its means by means of the courts and parts have been blocked for being unconstitutionally obscure.

But Paxton has used the remaining provisions of the regulation to deliver lawsuits in opposition to TikTok and now, Roblox. The litigation in opposition to TikTok is ongoing.

The Roblox lawsuit is filed in West Texas’ King County, the second least populous county in Texas with simply 265 residents and no integrated communities. One choose, Jennifer Habert, hears circumstances in King County, in addition to three others.

This article first appeared on The Texas Tribune.