A California court has permanently banned a Roblox player after he was sued by the game’s developer for allegedly harassing staff and making terrorist threats to disrupt official events.
The Roblox Corporation initially launched legal action against Roblox YouTuber and content creator Benjamin Robert Simon, known as Ruben Sim, last November, accusing him of leading a “cybermob” against the platform and using “malice, fraud, and oppression” to commit unlawful acts intended to “injure Roblox and its users”.
The lawsuit claimed Simon, who has been officially banned from Roblox for years for alleged terms of service violations, had repeatedly circumvented his ban to access the game, where he was accused of sexually harassing users, singling out individuals and groups for ridicule and abuse, using racial and homophobic slurs, attempting to upload a nude image of himself, attempting to upload a sex game, prolific profanity, and more.
Simon was also accused of cyber-bulling and harassing Roblox employees and executives – including making libellous personal accusations – and of posting fake terrorist threats to discourage players from attending in-person and online events. One terrorist threat, focussed on last year’s Roblox Developers Conference in California, saw the event temporarily shut down by police – a move said to have cost the developer “over $50,000”.