User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Updates to COPPA/@comment-177-20130705013600/@comment-58.107.231.222-20130706053610

"the fact that those sites are not blocked completely behind age gates but are still accesible to a potentially underaged audience is sufficient" - has the FTC stated anywhere that read-only access is, indeed, sufficient? I am confused, as the FAQ I quoted above seems to imply that this is insufficient: "you may not block children from participating altogether"... "you may not altogether prohibit children from participating in a child-directed site or service. "

So, in Wikia's view, the activity offered to users under 12 on child-directed wikis is read-only access, and the activity offered to those users on child-directed wikis who can accept the Terms of Service (being over 13) is being able to read, sign up for an account, and write text?