Overview
- Roblox has filed a motion in federal court arguing that the deceased user accepted its Terms of Use repeatedly and that those acceptances require the family to pursue claims in private arbitration rather than a public trial.
- The company says the account activity shows 28 instances of assent, including account creation, updated-term acceptances, gift-card redemptions, and purchases of Robux virtual currency.
- Audree Heine’s mother filed the wrongful-death lawsuit alleging the platform exposed her daughter to online communities that praised violence and self-harm, and she says an eight-year-old could not knowingly waive legal rights.
- Discord and TikTok have asked courts to reject or dismiss related claims, with Discord pointing to multiple accepted terms and an entered birthdate and TikTok arguing it did not proximately cause the death.
- The matter remains in the pretrial stage with no ruling on enforceability, and it sits among about 150 related federal suits and a bipartisan Senate review that together raise legal, regulatory, and financial stakes for platform safety rules.