Ken Paxton has been the scourge of Big Tech for years.
The Texas Attorney General just unleashed his biggest attack yet.
And Ken Paxton went to war with a Big Tech giant over creating this digital playground for predators.
Texas takes on Roblox over child exploitation crisis
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a bombshell lawsuit against Roblox Corporation, accusing the multi-billion dollar gaming platform of deliberately ignoring state and federal safety laws while deceiving parents about the real dangers lurking on their site.¹
Roblox is an online gaming platform where users — mostly children — create cartoon avatars and play millions of user-generated games.
Kids build virtual worlds, play games other users created, and chat with other players in real-time.
More than 80 million users log into Roblox every single day.²
Over 40% of those daily users are children under 13 years old.³
And Paxton isn't pulling punches about what's really happening behind the cartoon avatars and colorful game worlds.
"We cannot allow platforms like Roblox to continue operating as digital playgrounds for predators where the well-being of our kids is sacrificed on the altar of corporate greed," Paxton said in a statement announcing the lawsuit.⁴
The lawsuit alleges Roblox markets itself as a safe creative space for kids, but in reality has become a hunting ground for sexual predators.⁵
Children in Texas have been "repeatedly exposed to sexually explicit content, exploitation, and grooming because Roblox chose to put pixel pedophiles and corporate profit over the safety of Texas children," according to the complaint.⁶
Paxton accused Roblox of running "an unregulated digital playground that is saturated with sexual predators and sexual content."⁷
The platform knows tens of millions of users are under 13, but still hasn't implemented adequate protections to stop adults from posing as children, the lawsuit claims.⁸
Here's how the scam works.
Adults create fake accounts and use the platform's chat features, friend requests, and in-game tools to gain trust with children.⁹
Some predators offer Robux — the platform's virtual currency — in exchange for explicit photos.¹⁰
Others use threats and blackmail to extort children after getting compromising images.¹¹
The lawsuit cited multiple horrifying examples.
A 13-year-old boy in Utah was groomed online after meeting a predator on Roblox, then kidnapped and sexually assaulted before police rescued him in April 2023.¹²
An 11-year-old girl in New Jersey was kidnapped by a man she met on Roblox in October 2023.¹³
A 14-year-old girl in Ohio was sexually assaulted by a man posing as a 17-year-old on Roblox who convinced her to send nude images before meeting her in person in April 2023.¹⁴
One particularly disturbing case involved a man arrested for possessing child sexual abuse materials who used voice-altering software to pretend to be a young girl in order to exploit children on the platform.¹⁵
Pattern of corporate negligence exposed
The Texas lawsuit follows similar legal action by Kentucky and Louisiana, both of which sued Roblox over the exact same child safety failures.¹⁶
Kentucky's lawsuit specifically mentioned "assassination simulators" featuring conservative activist Charlie Kirk that cropped up on Roblox after Kirk's murder in September 2025.¹⁷
These games with graphic depictions of Kirk being shot were briefly accessible to young children before Roblox removed them.¹⁸
A 2024 Hindenburg Research report called Roblox a "pedophile hellscape for kids."¹⁹
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation labeled Roblox "a tool for sexual predators, a threat for children's safety."²⁰
Roblox reported over 13,000 cases of child exploitation in 2023 alone.²¹
Third-party monitoring found approximately 12,400 erotic roleplay accounts on Roblox, including accounts advertising "rape/forceful sex fetishes" and underage users "willing to do anything for Robux."²²
Darknet forums show adults trading tips for grooming children on Roblox chats, using misspellings and emojis to move conversations to unfiltered platforms for photos and videos.²³
Games with sexually explicit content like "Public Bathroom Simulator Vibe" and "XYZ Club Vibe" were available to users identifying as 9 years old or older.²⁴
These weren't isolated incidents buried in obscure corners of the platform.
They represent a systematic pattern Roblox has known about for years but refused to fix because doing so would hurt user engagement and damage their bottom line.
Multiple investigations found that even after Roblox implemented new "safety features" in November 2024, all the same risks remained.²⁵
Predators still accessed children in private chat rooms.²⁶
Adult content still slipped through age restrictions.²⁷
The company's supposed protections were window dressing designed to deflect criticism while the exploitation continued.
Paxton's Big Tech takedown continues
This Roblox lawsuit is the latest in Paxton's war against Big Tech companies that abuse consumer trust and endanger children.
Paxton secured a record-breaking $1.4 billion settlement with Meta for illegally capturing and using the biometric data of millions of Texans through Facebook's facial recognition features.²⁸
He won a $1.375 billion settlement with Google for unlawfully tracking users' location data, incognito browsing activity, and biometric identifiers like voiceprints and facial geometry.²⁹
That Google settlement was the highest recovery ever obtained by any single state against Google for privacy violations — nearly a billion dollars more than what a 40-state coalition secured.³⁰
Paxton also sued TikTok for failing to protect children online and launched investigations into Character.AI, Reddit, Instagram, and Discord regarding their data privacy and safety practices for children.³¹
He was the first Attorney General in the nation to file suit under a comprehensive state data privacy law.³²
Paxton's office established one of the largest and most aggressive privacy and technology-focused enforcement initiatives in the country.³³
Over the past year, his Privacy and Tech Team conducted investigations into the data practices of more than 200 companies.³⁴
The results speak for themselves.
Texas has secured over $4 billion in settlements from Big Tech companies that violated Texans' privacy and put children at risk.³⁵
Roblox responded to the lawsuit by claiming it was "disappointed" and calling the allegations "misrepresentations and sensationalized claims."³⁶
The company said it has "industry-leading protocols" to protect users.³⁷
But when pressed by BBC reporters who created fake accounts — one 15 years old and one 27 years old — they easily bypassed Roblox's safety controls to exchange messages about moving their conversation to another platform.³⁸
Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki told parents in March 2025, "My first message would be, if you're not comfortable, don't let your kids be on Roblox."³⁹
That's not protecting children.
That's the CEO admitting defeat and telling parents to figure it out themselves — when parents have no way of monitoring what happens in private chat rooms on a platform with 80 million daily users.
Paxton understands what's really happening here.
Roblox prioritized growth and profits over implementing the basic safety measures that would actually protect the tens of millions of children using their platform every day.
The company made billions of dollars while looking the other way as predators exploited children in their digital playground.
Texas isn't backing down, and neither is Ken Paxton.
¹ Scott McClallen, "Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Targets Roblox for Hosting 'Digital Playground of Predators,'" Townhall, November 6, 2025.
² Ibid.
³ "Texas Sues Gaming Platform Roblox for Allegedly Concealing Safety Risks From Parents," U.S. News & World Report, November 6, 2025.
⁴ "Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Roblox over alleged child safety lapses," Engadget, November 7, 2025.
⁵ McClallen, "Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Targets Roblox," Townhall.
⁶ Ibid.
⁷ Ibid.
⁸ Ibid.
⁹ "Roblox Sexual Abuse Lawsuit | Child Sexual Abuse Claims," Dolman Law Group, November 2025.
¹⁰ "Roblox Lawsuit Attorneys," Anapol Weiss, 2025.
¹¹ Ibid.
¹² "Roblox Lawsuits Over Child Sexual Abuse," AboutLawsuits.com, October 2025.
¹³ Ibid.
¹⁴ Ibid.
¹⁵ "Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Roblox over alleged child safety lapses," Engadget.
¹⁶ "Texas AG sues Roblox, accusing it of prioritizing 'pixel pedophiles' over child safety," TechCrunch, November 7, 2025.
¹⁷ "Kentucky sues Roblox, citing Charlie Kirk 'assassination simulators' in child safety lawsuit," Fox Business, October 6, 2025.
¹⁸ Ibid.
¹⁹ "The Growing Legal Storm: Roblox Faces Mounting Litigation," Attorney Javier Marcos, August 8, 2025.
²⁰ Ibid.
²¹ "Parents sound the alarm on Roblox safety issues," ParentsTogether, August 6, 2025.
²² "Roblox Sexual Abuse Lawsuit," Dolman Law Group.
²³ Ibid.
²⁴ Ibid.
²⁵ "Parents sound the alarm on Roblox safety issues," ParentsTogether.
²⁶ Ibid.
²⁷ Ibid.
²⁸ "Attorney General Ken Paxton Leads Nation in Protecting Americans' Data Privacy and Security from Big Tech," Texas Attorney General's Office, 2025.
²⁹ "Attorney General Ken Paxton Finalizes Historic Settlement with Google," Texas Attorney General's Office, October 31, 2025.
³⁰ Ibid.
³¹ "Attorney General Ken Paxton Leads Nation in Protecting Americans' Data Privacy," Texas Attorney General's Office.
³² Ibid.
³³ Ibid.
³⁴ Ibid.
³⁵ "AG Paxton Secures Record $1.375B Data Privacy Settlement With Google," Texas Scorecard, May 12, 2025.
³⁶ "Texas AG sues Roblox, accusing it of prioritizing 'pixel pedophiles,'" TechCrunch.
³⁷ Ibid.
³⁸ "Roblox CEO on child safety concerns: 'If you're not comfortable, don't let your kids be on Roblox,'" GameDeveloper.com, March 13, 2025.
³⁹ Ibid.
