[extesy]

That depends on what you mean by "operating". This very website, Hacker News, is not blocked in Russia - does that mean Y Combinator is "operating" there?

[thenthenthen]

Fun fact, Hacker News is blocked in China

[AndrewKemendo]

I’m curious how you know this? Did you try to get to this site from mainland and it was blocked?

Seems to work fine from a Chinese VPN IP

[mog_dev]

If they get money from users in that particular country then yes.

[extesy]

Not necessarily. Roblox does not directly receive money from users - nobody sends them a paper check or bank wire from Russia. Technically they get money from payment providers, who are supposedly compliant with all sanctions. I'm pretty sure that any provider that can support Roblox scale is big enough to worry about risks of being non-compliant.