WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Tenn. — Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti filed a civil enforcement lawsuit against Roblox Corporation, accusing the popular online gaming platform of deceiving parents about safety risks and knowingly exposing children to predators and sexual content.
The complaint, filed in Williamson County Chancery Court, alleges Roblox violated the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act through a pattern of false assurances about platform safety while deliberately failing to implement basic protections that would have safeguarded its predominantly young user base.
‘Digital Playground’ or ‘Predator’s Hunting Ground’?
“Roblox is the digital equivalent of a creepy cargo van lingering at the edge of a playground,” Attorney General Skrmetti said in a statement. “Roblox invites children into a fantastic online world with the promise of creativity and play, but that wonderland is a trap that lets the company sell sophisticated predators access to those vulnerable kids.”
The 61-page complaint details how Roblox, which averaged 151.5 million daily active users in the third quarter of 2025, built what the state characterizes as “a massive, largely unsupervised online world, where adults and children mingle with little functional oversight.”…