Where to get a stone ax and mammoth skin?: Rostov residents on Roblox ban in Russia
In Russia, the Roblox gaming platform has been officially blocked since December 3. The decision was made by Roskomnadzor (the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media), explaining that the platform promotes extremism, terrorism, and non-traditional relationships, and calls for violating laws.
«In the gaming space, there is a large amount of inappropriate content that can negatively affect the spiritual and moral development of children, and conditions and prerequisites are created for committing unlawful actions,» stated Roskomnadzor (quoted by RBC).
In the Telegram channel of 161.RU, we invited residents of Rostov Oblast to express their attitude towards the Roblox block. The reaction was mostly negative, though not so much due to love for this platform, but because of the annoying prohibitions.
«Seriously? Fighting a harmless game at the level of »Aгуша gaming«? Let»s go even further and ban gadgets and cartoons so that children see nothing but wooden horses and tin soldiers. It«s Don Quixote»s fight with windmills, I swear.«
«And anyway, what kind of parents need something to be banned/blocked for their children to go outside?»
«Look around, read the news, watch movies. If they turn off Roblox, will the negative influence disappear immediately?»
«Strange. Maybe it»s all about raising children? My children were not threatened by Roblox, gaming addiction, Japanese anime, or secret chats. I managed to raise my children perfectly well without state bans. And I never monitored them on social networks.«
«For children to start reading books, they need to have a parental example before their eyes. How many parents read now? And do they even remember what a book is?»
«They themselves gave the gadget into their hands and for some reason can»t take it back, and can only whine that the child is exclusively on the phone.«
«I observe it very often. The mother herself is glued to the phone and shoves a gadget like a tablet to the child. So he doesn»t bother her. With questions and conversations.«
«When we read in childhood, it was because the book was the most accessible source of interesting information. No internet, on TV two channels with Brezhnev. In the cinema, one or two interesting films a month, that»s all.«
«Times change, and we need to keep up with progress. Our parents, when we played outside, didn»t tell us: «Come on, let»s go herd cows and hoe weeds in the garden.« As it was in their childhood.»
«Nothing will be better than a paper book and the presentation of events (living through history) for children. Because a book is also the development of imagination, memory, and reading aloud is also the development of rhetoric.»
«My children read paper books, even though they had free access to the internet. They just got used from childhood to seeing their parents read, not watch TV or the phone.»
«Mine is already 12, until the age of ten (inclusive) he read books with great pleasure, asked me to buy them... But in fifth grade, it was like he changed! Most classmates played various games, including Roblox. So mine also preferred games over books.»
«Children are much smarter than these prohibitors. They will find ways around it.»
«Time flows only in one direction (and it is constantly changing qualitatively), no one can return to the Stone Age. And time requires development, but not only technical progress. Progress should only help. And a person needs to learn at least to be human. Are any prohibitions needed for those at the kindergarten level? Perhaps for their own good.»
«Tell me, does anyone know where to get a stone ax and mammoth skin? I think the vector of the country»s development indicates that this will soon be a top item.«
