> Sexual exploitation concerns
> Promotion of homosexuality
> Incentives for children through virtual currency
The official also highlighted issues with “robux,” Roblox’s virtual currency. Reports indicated that bot accounts were distributing robux to incentivize children’s participation in the aforementioned problematic activities.
Challenges in content oversight
> The inability to effectively monitor and regulate inappropriate content on Roblox
The homosexuality part is kind of absurd, but very in line with other Türkiye policies.
For the rest they seem very reasonable. Predatory monetization methods in games for adults are bad, applying the same methods to children is pure evil.
I will prefer strong regulations than banning. The same the we do with gambling.
I don't really see the homosexuality part as absurd. It is to be expected in their less tolerant culture. Remember, Turkey is the only majority Muslim country in the world where homosexuality is legal. They're pretty tolerant comparatively, but their culture is such that they don't want to encourage it. I wouldn't want to live in their society but I do believe in national self determination.
Shouldn't that be surprising? Christianity has the same rules around pornography so predominantly Christian countries would block it for the same reason.
Or perhaps there are no predominantly Christian countries anymore.
"Separation of church and state" is a metaphor paraphrased from Thomas Jefferson and used by others in discussions of the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof".
It seems that there is a persistent desire to call the country whatever you are used to. As a Turkish, I would add the points: You can call it whatever you want. Turkey is the historical name of the region. I believe the bird's name was also adopted from the fact that the bird came to Western world through Turkiye. The bird comes to us from India, so we call it "Hindi" in Turkish. I hope India one day does not change its name to something else because they don't want to be associated with what other people call them. Oh wait, they call themselves as Bharat(a) actually. In Turkish, the word "spice" is called "Baharat". Go figure.
Another important point for people who want to dead name Turkiye is this: When South Sudan was separate from Sudan, they were called South Sudan. Nobody disputed their name. If Turkiye split in two one day, one might call itself "Eastern Turkiye". In that case I just hope nobody tells them, 'no I will call you "Eastern Turkey" because that's what the other country was called which you were part of before.' We are not called "Ottoman Kingdom 2.0" for some reason. Now we apparently chose ourselves a new name to be referred in foreign languages. They did not consult me, tbh. But it fits what we call it in our original language (we call it "Türkiye"), so I am actually happy about it. So if you show respect to that decision then you show that as it is. If you don't respect it then, well you don't, and that's that. No kebap for you (/s).
About Roblox: My nephew coming of age invited me to play computer games. He told me to install Roblox but I haven't even heard about it and it did not appeal to me. I told him to install Sven-Co-op, because Half-Life is awesome and Sven Co-Op gives you multiplayer feature for free. We played for a while but he was dead bored and he quit. I was genuinely hurt but did not show it. New generation likes other things I guess. Then we played Roblox and honestly it had worse graphics than Half-Life, which is 25 years old game. Somehow it was boring to me but enjoyable to my Gen Z nephew. Well I hope he won't get too hardly shaken by the news, anyhow, somehow I feel relieved about this ban. These days he talks about "making his own games". I want to wait until a bit before I tell him the bad news about making games, but in general I am happy about the direction he is thinking.
> These days he talks about "making his own games". I want to wait until a bit before I tell him the bad news about making games
Part of the appeal of Roblox, to my limited understanding, is the ability to create content ("games") for it. This is the platform's two-edged sword, though, since their content moderation seems either insufficient or otherwise lacking for my tastes.
It's kind of the same problem with reddit: there is good content there, but there's also some of the worst things imaginable outside of *chan or *leaks. I pay a lot of attention when I notice any of my teenage kids are looking at any subreddit.
or, you just accept that different countries use different names for other countries.
Nobody calls Germany "Deutschland" outside of Germany (okay, outside of German-speaking countries)
Nobody calls Japan "Nihon" except people in Japan
Nobody calls Finland "Suomi" except people living there
...and the same goes for cities.
People probably still call it Turkey because they know how to pronounce it. Both the "ü" and the "iy" are very uncommon (and thus hard to pronounce) sounds for most of the world.
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The official also highlighted issues with “robux,” Roblox’s virtual currency. Reports indicated that bot accounts were distributing robux to incentivize children’s participation in the aforementioned problematic activities. Challenges in content oversight
> The inability to effectively monitor and regulate inappropriate content on Roblox
The homosexuality part is kind of absurd, but very in line with other Türkiye policies.
For the rest they seem very reasonable. Predatory monetization methods in games for adults are bad, applying the same methods to children is pure evil.
I will prefer strong regulations than banning. The same the we do with gambling.
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Or perhaps there are no predominantly Christian countries anymore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state...
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Another important point for people who want to dead name Turkiye is this: When South Sudan was separate from Sudan, they were called South Sudan. Nobody disputed their name. If Turkiye split in two one day, one might call itself "Eastern Turkiye". In that case I just hope nobody tells them, 'no I will call you "Eastern Turkey" because that's what the other country was called which you were part of before.' We are not called "Ottoman Kingdom 2.0" for some reason. Now we apparently chose ourselves a new name to be referred in foreign languages. They did not consult me, tbh. But it fits what we call it in our original language (we call it "Türkiye"), so I am actually happy about it. So if you show respect to that decision then you show that as it is. If you don't respect it then, well you don't, and that's that. No kebap for you (/s).
About Roblox: My nephew coming of age invited me to play computer games. He told me to install Roblox but I haven't even heard about it and it did not appeal to me. I told him to install Sven-Co-op, because Half-Life is awesome and Sven Co-Op gives you multiplayer feature for free. We played for a while but he was dead bored and he quit. I was genuinely hurt but did not show it. New generation likes other things I guess. Then we played Roblox and honestly it had worse graphics than Half-Life, which is 25 years old game. Somehow it was boring to me but enjoyable to my Gen Z nephew. Well I hope he won't get too hardly shaken by the news, anyhow, somehow I feel relieved about this ban. These days he talks about "making his own games". I want to wait until a bit before I tell him the bad news about making games, but in general I am happy about the direction he is thinking.
We call ourselves Indian and the country India in English. It would be a bit odd to hear someone refer Bharat in English.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/6/india-or-bharat-what...
What I think stayed his hand was Pakistani nationalists saying they would rename Pakistan to India, if India renamed itself to Bharat.
https://www.indy100.com/news/india-name-change-bharat-pakist...
Part of the appeal of Roblox, to my limited understanding, is the ability to create content ("games") for it. This is the platform's two-edged sword, though, since their content moderation seems either insufficient or otherwise lacking for my tastes.
It's kind of the same problem with reddit: there is good content there, but there's also some of the worst things imaginable outside of *chan or *leaks. I pay a lot of attention when I notice any of my teenage kids are looking at any subreddit.
Nobody calls Germany "Deutschland" outside of Germany (okay, outside of German-speaking countries)
Nobody calls Japan "Nihon" except people in Japan
Nobody calls Finland "Suomi" except people living there
...and the same goes for cities.
People probably still call it Turkey because they know how to pronounce it. Both the "ü" and the "iy" are very uncommon (and thus hard to pronounce) sounds for most of the world.
People pronounces harder country names(like Liechtenstein,Guinea-Bissau, Djibouti...) easily, I don't think it will be difficult to say Turkiye.
You can pronounce it like "Turquia" which is acceptable.
Here's how to pronunce better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfFZK6b2jtI&t=21s
> Both the "ü" and the "iy" are very uncommon (and thus hard to pronounce) sounds for most of the world.
Then what about Liechtenstein? Kyrgyzstan? Côte d’Ivoire? Colombia-not-columbia? The list goes on.
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