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What the ‘Roblox’ Hack Revealed About Chinese Censorship and U.S. Content Moderation

What the ‘Roblox’ Hack Revealed About Chinese Censorship and U.S. Content Moderation

FromCYBER


What the ‘Roblox’ Hack Revealed About Chinese Censorship and U.S. Content Moderation

FromCYBER

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Length:
32 minutes
Released:
Aug 9, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Last month, a hacker posted a trove of stolen documents online detailing the weird internal struggles of a little gaming company called Roblox. If you don’t know what Roblox is, just ask any child in America and they’ll explain it to you. The hacked documents contained fascinating insights into how gaming companies whose product depends on player freedom and creativity must navigate the treacherous waters of children, free speech, China, mass shootings, and content moderation. It’s a weird story where a child driven internet sandbox can lead to troubling and weird questions about genocide roleplay.Today on Cyber, Motherboard Staff Writer Joseph Cox comes on to talk about the hack and what we learned from it.Stories discussed in this episode:Hacker Posts Internal Roblox Employee Documents OnlineRevealed: Documents Show How Roblox Planned to Bend to Chinese CensorshipLeaked Documents Reveal How Roblox Handles Grooming and Mass Shooting SimulatorsWe’re recording CYBER live on Twitch. Watch live during the week. Follow us there to get alerts when we go live. We take questions from the audience and yours might just end up on the show.Subscribe to CYBER on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Released:
Aug 9, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Hacking. Hackers. Disinformation campaigns. Encryption. The Cyber. This stuff gets complicated really fast, but Motherboard spends its time embedded in the infosec world so you don't have to. Host Ben Makuch talks every week to Motherboard reporters Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai and Joseph Cox about the stories they're breaking and to the industry's most famous hackers and researchers about the biggest news in cybersecurity.