{"id":349535,"date":"2026-06-12T05:55:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T00:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=349535"},"modified":"2026-06-12T05:55:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T00:25:50","slug":"hundreds-of-youngsters-force-putin-to-back-down-over-roblox-ban-news-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/hundreds-of-youngsters-force-putin-to-back-down-over-roblox-ban-news-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of youngsters force Putin to back down over Roblox ban | News World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t\t<\/div><figcaption>The Roblox ban in Russia sparked an unprecedented wave of complaints from children (Picture: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Russian government has announced a U-turn on a Roblox ban after complaints from 1000&#8217;s of kids. <\/p>\n<p>Children in Russia\u00a0can access the hit game\u00a0Roblox\u00a0again after a petition forced officials to lift a six-month ban.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The US game was\u00a0blocked\u00a0in December\u00a0after Russia\u2019s communications watchdog\u00a0Roskomnadzor accused the\u00a0platform of being \u2018rife with inappropriate content that may negatively impact the spiritual and moral development of kids.\u2019\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However the move led to a wave of complaints, including a rare protest in Siberia and an official petition to revive\u00a0one in every of the world\u2019s hottest games.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The professional-Kremlin Secure Web League reported receiving 63,000 letters from children against the ban.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Around half of them said the children wanted to go away Russia due to block, in line with The Moscow Times.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\" data-ico=\"factbox_article\" data-track-module=\"factbox_article\">\n<h2 class=\"factbox-title\">\n\t\t\t\tJoin for all of the newest stories\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<div class=\"factbox-content\">\n<p>Start your day informed with Metro&#8217;s <strong>News Updates<\/strong> newsletter or get <strong>Breaking News <\/strong>alerts the moment it happens. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The wave of complaints was even acknowledged by Vladimir Putin\u2019s government spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, who confirmed that the president received a\u00a0significant number\u00a0of\u00a0appeals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Russian ministry of media and communications said today: \u2018Roblox has fully complied with Russian laws to make sure user safety. The web gaming service is once more available throughout Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The corporation has implemented a comprehensive set of measures to further protect children, including launching a mechanism to limit access to games by age group.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Roblox has also committed to further combating the spread of inappropriate content on the platform.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In its ban, the country\u2019s media watchdog cited concern over alleged terrorism-related content and\u00a0details about LGBTQ+ issues, which might fall under extremist content in Russia on account of its strict laws.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before the Russian ban, Roblox had restricted chats in order that adult strangers could now not speak to children.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Russian government has also restricted access to apps and platforms like Facebook, Instagram,\u00a0WhatsApp\u00a0and YouTube.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the UK government is claimed to be looking into measures to stop children from speaking with strangers on any gaming platform. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong><strong><strong>Get in contact with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>For more stories like this, <\/strong><strong>check our news page<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"><\/use><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Xbox drops over 60 minutes of gameplay for Fable and Halo: Campaign Evolved<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"><\/use><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Resident Evil 4 and Pikmin 4 rumoured for Switch 2 as post-Direct leaks emerge<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"><\/use><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Putin suffers an evening of hell after Ukraine targets key military site<\/span><\/p>\n<section id=\"share-buttons-bottom\" class=\"share-buttons share-buttons-bottom\"><a class=\"metro-button share-bar-comments\" data-vars-position=\"bottom\" href=\"#metro-comments-container\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span><svg><title>Comment now<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#social-comment\" href=\"#social-comment\"><\/use><\/svg><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"share-bar-comments__label\">Comments<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span><svg><title>Add Metro as a Preferred Source on Google<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#social-preferred-source\" href=\"#social-preferred-source\"><\/use><\/svg><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"share-bar-preferred-source__label\">Add as preferred source<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n<div class=\"newsletter-end-card accent--gaming\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-end-card__inner\">\n<h4>GameCentral<\/h4>\n<p>Join for exclusive evaluation, latest releases, and bonus community content.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Roblox ban in Russia sparked an unprecedented wave of complaints from children (Picture: Getty Images) The Russian government has announced a U-turn on a Roblox ban after complaints from 1000&#8217;s of kids. Children in Russia\u00a0can access the hit game\u00a0Roblox\u00a0again after a petition forced officials to lift a six-month ban.\u00a0 The US game was\u00a0blocked\u00a0in December\u00a0after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":349536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20691],"tags":[4588,3474,1509,395,20160,6162,11088,813],"class_list":["post-349535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-ban","tag-force","tag-kids","tag-news","tag-putin","tag-roblox","tag-thousands","tag-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349538,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349535\/revisions\/349538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}