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Ruben Sim is accused of sexual harassment, terrorist threats, and trying to post Hitler pics
Roblox is finally taking notorious YouTuber Benjamin “Ruben Sim” Simon to court over his alleged attacks on the gaming social media platform and its young fans. A lawsuit filed in California court on Tuesday wants the longtime banned player to pay $1.6 million in damages and stop harassing Roblox employees and players.
First reported by Polygon, the lawsuit contains a number of allegations against Simon, who has been making and profiting from Roblox videos since 2010. Those videos run the gamut, featuring him doing everything from sexually harassing players he encounters in the game to making public “terrorist threats” against the company during its annual convention.
According to Roblox, this led the company to have to temporarily shut down its Roblox Developers Conference in San Francisco last month after Simon reportedly posted about police searching for “Islamic Extremists” at the event. The company claims this cost it $50,000 to investigate the false reports.
Here’s some other stuff Simon is accused of in the lawsuit:
- “Glamorizing the April 3, 2018 active shooter and murder at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California and threatening/taunting a copycat act of terrorism at Roblox headquarters in nearby San Mateo, California”
- “attempting to upload a nude image of himself with only a lampshade covering his genitals”
- “using racial and homophobic slurs, creating and using inappropriate accounts with sexual names”
- “attempting to upload a sex game”
- “attempting to upload pictures of Hitler”
Simon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Read the full article on Kotaku
