US court slaps Roblox troll with $150k fine for making terrorist threats RobloxAn infamous Roblox troll has not only been permanently banned from the popular online game, but also slapped with a $150,000 fine by a US court for making \u201cthreats of terrorist activity.\u201d It\u2019s one thing to get banned from a game by a publisher, but Roblox troll Benjamin Simon, AKA Ruben Sim, is now barred from playing by US courts. In November 2021, Roblox sued Simon, who\u2019s also a content creator for the game, for terrorizing the platform and its developers, along with a likeminded \u201ccybermob.\u201d Not only is Simon permanently banned from Roblox \u2013 he\u2019s also been ordered to pay $150,000 to the publisher, as well. Roblox troll ordered to pay $150,000 Documents posted by Arstechnica from the US District court of Northern California indicate Roblox\u2019s complaint was settled on January 14, 2022. The court\u2019s judgement \u201cpermanently restrains the Defendant (Simon)\u201d from \u201cMaking, publishing, or re-publishing false threats of terrorist activity relating to Roblox; Knowingly making false statements of fact about Roblox; Glamorizing or encouraging violence against Roblox, its employees, or facilities;\u201d and more. Simon is also barred from \u201caccessing the Roblox Platform other than those public portions of the Roblox website that do not require an account to access,\u201d and must stay 100 feet away from any Roblox office or facility, as well. In the original suit from 2021, Roblox lawyers claimed Simon made \u201cterrorist threats\u201d that caused the Roblox Developers Conference in San Francisco in October to temporarily shut down. According to a report from Polygon, the threats posted included one that read, \u201cDon\u2019t come to RDC (Roblox Developers Conference) tomorrow.\u201d On Twitter, Simon acknowledged the ruling, and said he wouldn\u2019t be accessing the platform anymore per the judgement. However, in his tweet on the matter, he said he hadn\u2019t paid Roblox any money. Roblox has yet to comment on the situation, but it seems this decision will finally get rid of one of the publisher\u2019s biggest headaches for good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
US court slaps Roblox troll with $150k fine for making terrorist threats RobloxAn infamous Roblox troll has not only been permanently banned from the popular online game, but also slapped with a $150,000 fine by a US court for making \u201cthreats of terrorist activity.\u201d It\u2019s one thing to get banned from a game by a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}