Roblox’s Commitment to Safety and Civility Explained

October 14, 2024

Roblox is an immersive gaming and creation platform that offers people millions of ways to be together, inviting its community to explore, create and share endless unique experiences. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together — in a world that's safe, civil, and optimistic. To achieve this vision, we are building an innovative company that, together with the Roblox community, has the ability to strengthen our social fabric and support economic growth for people around the world. For more about Roblox, please visit http://corp.roblox.com.

ROBLOX CIVILITY INITIATIVE

We launched the Roblox Civility initiative to provide our community—whether users, parents and caregivers, or educators—with the tools and knowledge to better navigate the online world, including Roblox, safely and confidently.

Partnering with expert global organizations such as Internet Matters, the National Association of Media Literacy Education (NAMLE), and The Digital Wellness Lab (from Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School), Roblox has helped create resources on a wide range of topics including online safety, media literacy, wellbeing, and digital parenting. We launched a dedicated microsite to help users, parents, and educators easily find these resources. Working together, we can collectively stay better informed on potential issues that could be affecting our community.

Feedback we receive from our expert partners helps us shape our roadmap for safety features and policy. It also allows us to expand our networks so our safety tools can reach a broader audience. Our Safety Advisory Board provides impartial, critical feedback on products before they are launched. Fortunately, FOSI was one of our first board members and is still actively contributing. Thank you FOSI!

NEW FEATURES TO KEEP USERS SAFE

At Roblox we never stop innovating, particularly when it comes to safety and civility. We have rolled out several new features already this year such as increasing the use of AI to scale safety and moderation, as well as using it to help keep communication safe between users on the platform.

We will continue to focus on building tools to provide support when users need it most, as well as working with some exciting new partners who are experts in areas of online safety and wellbeing. We can’t wait to share all these updates with you soon! 

Stay tuned - we are excited to provide some resources about our new safety tools on the Good Digital Parenting platform in 2025.

Written by

Laura Higgins

Laura Higgins is Senior Director of Community Safety and Civility at Roblox with years of experience building safeguarding, online safety and civility programs. Roblox’s digital civility initiative is focused on providing the community with the skills needed to create positive online experiences, working with the world’s leading safety and industry organizations.

In her previous role with the UK Safer Internet Centre, Laura founded several award-winning helpline services, and worked with the biggest names in tech. She has spoken on digital safety topics across the globe and regularly appears in the media sharing her expertise with industry experts, parents and kids.