Update – Roblox responds. Anika Wells puts Roblox on notice over child safety concerns

The AI-generated Anika Wells in our header image above is exactly how I imagine the Australian Federal Communications Minister as she puts “Roblox on Notice” over concerns about child safety on the platform.

Minister Wells has written to the Australian Classification Board to ask if the PG rating of Roblox is actually appropriate, given the content that is available within various games on the platform.

But the most aggressive stance came from the Minister’s letter to Roblox in which they are on notice to explain the issues being raised with their platform.

Here’s the letter sent from the Minister for Communications to Roblox:

I am alarmed by reports of children being exposed to graphic and gratuitous user-generated content on the platform, including sexually explicit and suicidal material.

Even more disturbing are ongoing reports and concerns about children being approached and groomed by predators, who actively seek to exploit their curiosity and innocence.

I’m most recently aware of two media reports, including “Porn, predators and prey: The very dark side of Roblox exposed” published on 1 February 2026 and “Queensland man accused of grooming hundreds of children on Fortnite, Roblox and Snapchat” published on 6 February 2026.

I note that Roblox engaged extensively with the eSafety Commissioner throughout 2024 and 2025 to develop and implement additional safety measures for children. Despite this, the issues appear to persist.

This is untenable, and these issues are of deep concern to many Australians parents and carers.

I therefore seek an urgent meeting with you to discuss the steps Roblox is taking to improve safety outcomes and experiences on its platform.

In particular, I am interested in hearing about the measures Roblox has taken to restrict children from engaging with high impact experiences, the status of implementing age assurance processes, and restrictions in place to prevent adults from contacting children.

Minister Wells told the media this evening, “The safety of children online is non-negotiable.

“The reports we’ve been hearing about children being exposed to graphic content on Roblox, and predators actively using the platform to groom young people, are horrendous. Something must be done – now.

“Australian parents and children expect more from Roblox. They can and must do more to protect kids, and when we meet I’ll be asking how they propose to do that.

“These sorts of harms show why we need a digital duty of care, which will place the onus on digital platforms to proactively keep their users, particularly children, safe.”

All this comes after Roblox voluntarily added age verification to their platform in November last year. This verification means that kids can only talk to kids their own age, though it doesn’t do anything about the content that is created within games on Roblox.

The two articles referred to by the minister are poor examples. The report about a Queensland man before the courts covers many years of potential abuse, well before any restrictions were added by Roblox.

The second is more alarming, because it looks at some of the content on Roblox.

At issue with Roblox is that the platform doesn’t release games, individuals make games; on roblox and anyone can play them – thus “Roblox” doesn’t know what’s in all the games.

But if you are going to run a platform, you have to control the content – that’s what Roblox needs to address. And fast.

In response, a Roblox spokesperson told EFTM “We look forward to the opportunity to inform the Minister of the steps we take to help keep our community safe. Roblox has robust safety policies and processes to help protect users that go beyond many other platforms, and advanced safeguards that monitor for harmful content and communications. We have filters designed to block the sharing of personal information, our chat features don’t allow user-to-user image or video sharing, and we recently rolled out age checks globally to limit kids and teens to only chatting with others of similar age by default. We also work closely with Australian law enforcement to support their investigations. While no system is perfect, our commitment to safety never ends, and we continue to strengthen protections to help keep users safe.”