Perhaps it is no surprise that Roblox, the latest Western-owned platform with social media elements, is being blocked in Russia. You also can’t use Facebook , Instagram, Threads, Twitter/X, or LinkedIn there, for example.
Meanwhile, YouTube is throttled and disrupted in favor of the state-backed RuTube. (Is there going to be a RuBlox soon?) Russia’s domestic VK social network is most widely used there, and is heavily moderated, and features automatic content filtering according to Roskomnadzor’s blacklist.
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Pierce2623 Who needs YouTube when you’ve got RuTube in cutting edge 240p 24fps ? Reply
blppt Imagine being revolutionary-level angry at Putin's government that you've lost access to Roblox and not as much for causing much of the planet to sanction your country economically. Today's kids, SMH. GET OFF MY LAWN! Reply
Hooda Thunkett Alienating the young is the surest way for a government to bring itself down. Reply
das_stig A few weeks in a Siberian gaming camp will soon have them compliant as their parents, in accepting Putin genocidal criminal word is law. Reply
S58_is_the_goat Children in Russia have raised their voices Off you go to the front lines kiddos! Reply
Gururu Roblox is brain rot for kids, but so is sending them to war. Reply
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