Roblox is pushing to keep over 150 child predator cases out of public court

Hundreds of families suing Roblox over child predator allegations may never see a courtroom, because the platform’s own terms of service could lock them out before they get there.

Roblox has faced a growing wave of lawsuits over child safety for years, with parents claiming the platform falsely advertised its protections against predators. The company’s answer to those families isn’t a defense of its record but an argument that the whole conversation should happen somewhere nobody can see it.

Roblox wants child predator lawsuits kept out of court

According to a Bloomberg report published June 10, Roblox is pushing to move more than 150 federal child safety suits into closed-door arbitration. The company is citing terms of service that strip users of their right to sue in open court.

One plaintiff, identified only as Myra to protect her daughter’s privacy, describes in her lawsuit how the FBI intercepted an Australian man who had posed as a child on the platform and sent her daughter messages describing graphic sexual acts he intended to carry out, before he could meet her in person.

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“They just want to put everything behind the scenes,” Myra told Bloomberg. “They don’t want everybody to know what actually is going on.” Messaging app Discord, named as a co-defendant because predators allegedly moved conversations there after meeting children on Roblox, is invoking the same clause.

Several judges have already blocked both companies from routing the cases into arbitration, but appeals are ongoing, making a resolution unlikely before the end of the year.

Meta and Snap, facing similar predator claims, chose not to enforce their arbitration clauses. Congress passed a law in 2022 banning forced arbitration in workplace sexual misconduct cases, and advocates are now pushing to extend that protection to minors filing sexual exploitation complaints.

Roblox has spent the last two years introducing facial age checks and reaching a $12.5 million settlement with Nevada that bans adults from messaging children. None of it has slowed the lawsuits, and Roblox’s broader facial age check rollout shows just how much pressure the company is under.