Roblox player banned and ordered to pay $150 in court order

YouTuber Benjamin Robert Simon, known as Ruben Sim, must stay away from Roblox forever, in addition to paying US$ 150 in damages to the owner of the gaming platform. The California Court, USA, convicted the player in a lawsuit filed by Roblox Corporation, which accused Simon of practicing terrorist threats and apology for Nazism.

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In the original lawsuit, Roblox Corporation had sought damages of US$1,6 million. In the final judgment, however, the Justice reduced the amount to US$ 8,8 thousand, after an agreement. It is worth mentioning that Simon has been banned from Roblox several times, but he always managed to come back creating new profiles. Now, if he returns to the platform again, he could receive an even more severe punishment.

The lawsuit against Simon began in November 2021. At the time, Roblox Corporation commented that the youtuber had received his first ban “in years” for harassing players with racist and homophobic insults, sexual violence and apology for Nazism. As Simon kept coming back with other accounts, the company decided to sue him.

Roblox Corporation also accused Simon of stealing other people's profiles to access Roblox games and, by doing so, offending players with homophobic and racist terms, committing sexual harassment and uploading photos of Adolph Hitler in the games. In addition to paying $150, the YouTuber agreed not to create, publish or share “false threats of terrorist activity related to Roblox.”

Simon is still prohibited from making false statements about Roblox, encouraging violence against Roblox Corporation employees, approaching the production company's offices or recording videos that encourage violation of the terms of use, as well as returning players to the platform after being banned.

Simon profited from terrorist threat videos

On his YouTube channel with over 700k subscribers, Simon posted the terrorist threats related to Roblox and still profited from it. Lawyers for Roblox Corporation said in the lawsuit that the YouTuber had even engineered the attack that temporarily interrupted a presentation at the Roblox Developers Conference (RDC) in San Francisco in October 2021.

In the lawsuit, the company also claimed that Simon was talking to supporters about the YouTube headquarters shooting — which took place in April 2018 — and hoped “someone else would do the same at Roblox Corporation.” In some videos, the youtuber even attacked the production company's employees directly.