Ridiculous reason with maybe a decent outcome, of course lgbt kids get to witness the sledgehammer of the state weilding against them and to grow up feeling like hated freaks.
Regular Russia L
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LeninWeave [none/use name, any] - 5day
On the one hand, fuck those homophobes and this is a bad reason, symptomatic of bad policies.
On the other, Roblox is legitimately one of the worst games on earth and Russia is probably ironically helping Russian LGBT kids by preventing them from being exploited in that digital sweatshop.
Also, based on the wording of that article in the image, it's probably also related to pro-Ukrainian/pro-Western messaging being found in the game as well, rather than just LGBT content.
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FunkyStuff [he/him] - 5day
I don't know the first thing about Roblox, but I find it hard to believe that a game company with that much global appeal apparently has been publishing content so blatantly pro-LGBTQ that Russia actually felt like they had to ban it for that reason. User made content? Maybe. But Russia has been trying pretty hard to secede from the US dominated tech market this year, banning a lot of Western internet sites with the idea of rolling their own. So I think your explanation is plausible.
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LeninWeave [none/use name, any] - 5day
AFAIK, Roblox is pretty much all user-made content. It's a grift built on the exploitation of child labor.
I don't think you can blame this one on abandoning communism. The USSR outlawed homosexuality until the day it fell.
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UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her] - 5day
Look at my global powers opposing US imperialism dawg
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RedSturgeon [she/her] - 5day
The West is using LGBT+ people as a part of propaganda machine, to help incite color revolutions.
Russia here is being reactionary and assumes LGBT+ people are propaganda in and of itself.
It is a choice made with clouded judgement and hurts their interests, they would ultimately benefit a lot if they were supportive of LGBT+ people, same as they would benefit a lot from being Communist in practice (which in and of itself includes being pro-LGBT+), not just decor, not just when their conditions force them to adopt socialist adjacent practices, but they are being reactionaries and it has hurt them a lot, it has caused unnecessary suffering for the queer people and everyone else effected by this.
It was literally the heritage foundation that funded a lot of pro-capitalist, anti-lgbt propaganda. Not just them, USAID and plenty of other orgs exist too. Don't get me wrong I despise Washington, but I don't believe even for a second that people who were funded by imperialist money can be genuinely anti-imperialist, they were just forced to be in some respects.
They should have banned roblox for being anti-communist, pro-american
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insurgentrat [she/her, it/its] - 5day
the russian federation is not communist by any stretch, nor is it trying to be.
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RedSturgeon [she/her] - 5day
I said If they were communists in practice, not just decor
Why am I so bad at English. I just want for people to understand me, maybe I should really just give up.
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insurgentrat [she/her, it/its] - 5day
It seemed like you were surprised they're not but the government is one of the furthest from communism.
Idk this sort of divisive hatemongering is a standard playbook when you're ripping people off. Find an enemy: migrants, queers, racial minorities, religious minorities and beat up on them so much that people start to believe you are actually keeping them safe. Meanwhile you're fishing around in their pockets.
The russian federation doing something communist seems as likely as the usa or India doing it. The governments just aren't interested in anything but power and society is fractured.
Sucks, I will they could have kept the good bits of the USSR and not the bad bits :(
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RedSturgeon [she/her] - 4day
Yeah you're right. Honestly I could have gone more in detail, like you mentioned society is so fragmented in Russia and in many parts of the world, it's difficult to have a discussion on these things. So I kept it brief.
if critique anything viewed as Anit-USA I am immediately branded as CIA
if I critique anything USA aligned I am viewed as "KGB" (Even though that institution was transformed into FSB)
So honestly it was my fault in part. Sometimes I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do, there's parts of governments/societies all across the world, united in their goal of targeting people like myself or they just don't care and the only large scale effort against it that has been fighting for things like LGBT+ rights, that being Liberalism, has no interest in changing the economic model.
On the bright side, despite all the flaws of Liberalism, the one thing it, begrudgingly, gave us (it was forced to give us, since Fascism was extremely unpopular after WW2), is the concept of Universal Human Rights. What any genuinely socialist/communist movement has to do is take those rights and expand them, to apply to everyone. Something that was not done after WW2, these rights have to be expanded to every groups of people and every class of people, class in the Marxist definition, which can only be done by also changing the economic model.
That's the only shot at this that I see we have.
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MayoPete [he/him, comrade/them] - 5day
What is it about eastern Europe that leads to so much bigotry like this? Why do so many people need to get involved in what other people are doing? Just leave us alone 😔
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starkillerfish [she/her] - 5day
How is Russia communist in decor? It’s not 1989 anymore
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RedSturgeon [she/her] - 5day
I meant like, restoring statues for decorative purposes, but not wanting to let go of neoliberalism.
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CarmineCatboy2 [he/him] - 5day
the current russian state does actually pander to all sorts of pure aesthetics, including that of the soviet era or at least an image of the soviet era that is palatable to a capitalist oligarchy with a significant older demographic. its hardly unique to Russia, i'd say - it is no different from other forms of 'golden age of your living grandparent's parents' rethoric.
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starkillerfish [she/her] - 5day
I don’t disagree about pandering. But pandering is very different from a state presenting itself as communist. Modern russia does not present itself as communist
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CarmineCatboy2 [he/him] - 5day
I think 'they would benefit from being Communist in practice, not just decor,' can be interpreted in a way that is in keeping with your own take.
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starkillerfish [she/her] - 5day
Fair
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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 5day
There are so many legitimate reasons to ban Roblox and this is what they publicly go with?
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Evilsandwichman [none/use name] - 5day
I didn't even know Roblox existed until a handfulof years ago, how is it drumming up this much attention?
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Moidialectica [he/him, comrade/them] - 5day
Roblox is the largest gaming platform right now. Larger than Minecraft and larger than steam.
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CarmineCatboy2 [he/him] - 5day
basically its the actual meta-verse / second life for the youngest internet users. you can find everything in there
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dead [he/him] - 5day
I think the premise of Roblox is that players can create custom areas, which players make their own minigames for other players to join. I've seen articles about a number of problematic custom games that have been created. There is also an in game currency which costs real money (Robux), which has been used for illegal casinos.
Hard to explain banning a multinational digital games platform for reasons of national security and domestic protectionism. Its easier just to blame gay people.
dead in popularculture
Russia bans Roblox for promoting 'LGBT propaganda'
https://archive.is/Evvi2
https://kotaku.com/russia-bans-roblox-lgbtq-roskomnadzor-2000650125
https://www.reuters.com/technology/russia-blocks-access-us-childrens-gaming-platform-roblox-2025-12-03/
"Russia bans Roblox"
"for promoting LGBT propaganda"
Yeah, real whiplash headline.
Ridiculous reason with maybe a decent outcome, of course lgbt kids get to witness the sledgehammer of the state weilding against them and to grow up feeling like hated freaks.
Regular Russia L
On the one hand, fuck those homophobes and this is a bad reason, symptomatic of bad policies.
On the other, Roblox is legitimately one of the worst games on earth and Russia is probably ironically helping Russian LGBT kids by preventing them from being exploited in that digital sweatshop.
Also, based on the wording of that article in the image, it's probably also related to pro-Ukrainian/pro-Western messaging being found in the game as well, rather than just LGBT content.
I don't know the first thing about Roblox, but I find it hard to believe that a game company with that much global appeal apparently has been publishing content so blatantly pro-LGBTQ that Russia actually felt like they had to ban it for that reason. User made content? Maybe. But Russia has been trying pretty hard to secede from the US dominated tech market this year, banning a lot of Western internet sites with the idea of rolling their own. So I think your explanation is plausible.
AFAIK, Roblox is pretty much all user-made content. It's a grift built on the exploitation of child labor.
people make games had a great video about the hideous business model https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Right thing, absurdly wrong and evil reason
Doing the right thing for the wrong reasons
What abandoning communism does to a country.
I don't think you can blame this one on abandoning communism. The USSR outlawed homosexuality until the day it fell.
Look at my global powers opposing US imperialism dawg
The West is using LGBT+ people as a part of propaganda machine, to help incite color revolutions.
Russia here is being reactionary and assumes LGBT+ people are propaganda in and of itself.
It is a choice made with clouded judgement and hurts their interests, they would ultimately benefit a lot if they were supportive of LGBT+ people, same as they would benefit a lot from being Communist in practice (which in and of itself includes being pro-LGBT+), not just decor, not just when their conditions force them to adopt socialist adjacent practices, but they are being reactionaries and it has hurt them a lot, it has caused unnecessary suffering for the queer people and everyone else effected by this.
It was literally the heritage foundation that funded a lot of pro-capitalist, anti-lgbt propaganda. Not just them, USAID and plenty of other orgs exist too. Don't get me wrong I despise Washington, but I don't believe even for a second that people who were funded by imperialist money can be genuinely anti-imperialist, they were just forced to be in some respects.
They should have banned roblox for being anti-communist, pro-american
the russian federation is not communist by any stretch, nor is it trying to be.
Why am I so bad at English. I just want for people to understand me, maybe I should really just give up.
It seemed like you were surprised they're not but the government is one of the furthest from communism.
Idk this sort of divisive hatemongering is a standard playbook when you're ripping people off. Find an enemy: migrants, queers, racial minorities, religious minorities and beat up on them so much that people start to believe you are actually keeping them safe. Meanwhile you're fishing around in their pockets.
The russian federation doing something communist seems as likely as the usa or India doing it. The governments just aren't interested in anything but power and society is fractured.
Sucks, I will they could have kept the good bits of the USSR and not the bad bits :(
Yeah you're right. Honestly I could have gone more in detail, like you mentioned society is so fragmented in Russia and in many parts of the world, it's difficult to have a discussion on these things. So I kept it brief.
if critique anything viewed as Anit-USA I am immediately branded as CIA
if I critique anything USA aligned I am viewed as "KGB" (Even though that institution was transformed into FSB)
So honestly it was my fault in part. Sometimes I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do, there's parts of governments/societies all across the world, united in their goal of targeting people like myself or they just don't care and the only large scale effort against it that has been fighting for things like LGBT+ rights, that being Liberalism, has no interest in changing the economic model.
On the bright side, despite all the flaws of Liberalism, the one thing it, begrudgingly, gave us (it was forced to give us, since Fascism was extremely unpopular after WW2), is the concept of Universal Human Rights. What any genuinely socialist/communist movement has to do is take those rights and expand them, to apply to everyone. Something that was not done after WW2, these rights have to be expanded to every groups of people and every class of people, class in the Marxist definition, which can only be done by also changing the economic model.
That's the only shot at this that I see we have.
What is it about eastern Europe that leads to so much bigotry like this? Why do so many people need to get involved in what other people are doing? Just leave us alone 😔
How is Russia communist in decor? It’s not 1989 anymore
I meant like, restoring statues for decorative purposes, but not wanting to let go of neoliberalism.
the current russian state does actually pander to all sorts of pure aesthetics, including that of the soviet era or at least an image of the soviet era that is palatable to a capitalist oligarchy with a significant older demographic. its hardly unique to Russia, i'd say - it is no different from other forms of 'golden age of your living grandparent's parents' rethoric.
I don’t disagree about pandering. But pandering is very different from a state presenting itself as communist. Modern russia does not present itself as communist
I think 'they would benefit from being Communist in practice, not just decor,' can be interpreted in a way that is in keeping with your own take.
Fair
There are so many legitimate reasons to ban Roblox and this is what they publicly go with?
I didn't even know Roblox existed until a handfulof years ago, how is it drumming up this much attention?
Roblox is the largest gaming platform right now. Larger than Minecraft and larger than steam.
basically its the actual meta-verse / second life for the youngest internet users. you can find everything in there
I think the premise of Roblox is that players can create custom areas, which players make their own minigames for other players to join. I've seen articles about a number of problematic custom games that have been created. There is also an in game currency which costs real money (Robux), which has been used for illegal casinos.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/roblox-ceo-predators
Hard to explain banning a multinational digital games platform for reasons of national security and domestic protectionism. Its easier just to blame gay people.
Common Russian L.
The kids will just crack it i bet lmao.