Wack a Mole ...

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Wack a Mole applies to many things on the net from deep fakes to porn as computers, combined with ubiquitous networks allows this kind of content, and more, to run online 24/7. With this in mind, a long and detailed article in Fast Company shows where young people go to play games and access porn without restriction if they have the smarts to make it so.

Sex, lies, and video games: Inside Roblox’s war on porn

Roblox is waging a technological shadow war against condo games: digital sex parties where kids act like adults. With more than half of Americans under 16 playing Roblox, can the company regain control of its own platform?

Roblox today is the product of its over 150 million monthly active users. What began as a sandbox now resembles a scrappy cybernation of teens and tweens whose population rivals that of Japan. And the dollars are real: Players poured more than $490 million into Roblox via mobile devices in the first half of 2020 alone, according to Sensor Tower data. Roblox projects that its user-developers—many of whom are Roblox veterans in their late teens and early twenties—will earn more than $250 million from selling access to their creations this year. The company, which is valued at $4 billion, takes roughly 65 cents of every U.S. dollar when developers cash out.

It gets better.

KIDS BETWEEN THE AGES OF 5 AND 9 SPEND MORE TIME PLAYING ROBLOX THAN DOING ANYTHING ELSE ONLINE ON PCS.

Read the Fast Company piece in its entirety. It's a really smart thing to do.