Overview
- Buenos Aires first cut off Roblox on city-managed school networks after a family reported a suspected grooming incident involving a student outside school hours.
- Córdoba formalized the same restriction with a circular to schools, applied filters on the Educar network, and asked provincial internet providers to enforce the block; national connectivity authorities confirmed the implementation.
- Santa Fe is reviewing whether to impose comparable limits on school networks after previously restricting hundreds of gambling and illicit gaming sites.
- Authorities cite risks including falsified ages, contact with strangers, addictive mechanics, and exposure to inappropriate content, noting Roblox’s large child user base in Argentina.
- Education officials and experts emphasize that school-network filters are only a first step and urge parental controls, platform moderation, and classroom-based digital literacy to address out-of-school access.