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Just five days after blocking Instagram<\/a>, Turkey has banned Roblox over reports of inappropriate sexual content perceived as exploiting children, T\u00fcrkiye Today<\/em><\/a> reported. An official from the T\u00fcrkiye Directorate of Communications also cited “promotion of homosexuality” and incentives for children via the game’s Robux virtual currency as reasons for the ban.<\/p>\n The regulator also said that monitoring content on Roblox is a significant challenge. The countrywide restrictions were imposed following an investigation by the chief public prosecutor’s office.<\/p>\n Last week, Instagram was blocked in in the country following a dispute over Hamas-related content on the platform. Turkey\u2019s head of communications stated in a post<\/a> on X that Instagram was “actively preventing people from posting messages of condolences\u201d for Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader who was killed earlier this week.<\/p>\n Turkish authorities have banned major social media services before. Twitter was briefly blocked in the country last year<\/a> following an earthquake that killed thousands of people. YouTube and Twitter were also blocked in 2014.<\/a><\/p>\n Roblox has had its own problems, particularly around complaints of child exploitation. Earlier this year, the company was hit with a lawsuit<\/a> accusing it of exploiting child labor and deceptive advertising. The company was also sued in 2022<\/a> for allowing adult users to sexually prey on a 10-year-old girl. Discord, Snap and Meta were also named in that suit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n