Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-45571174-20200917215136/@comment-43622785-20200921014734

I guess it all comes down to how you feel about something and whether you desire some changes. COPPA has been quite successful in the past, and the law certainly applies to US-based companies like I mentioned. If a company was in South Africa, for instance, which partly covers this under their Children's Act, and it decides to expand its services to the US, then there's supposedly a agreement to follow South Africa's laws in suppression of US laws. That has little to do with kids getting away with (in a certain sense) being older than their parents online; recently, in China, their people (not other people outside of their influence) are required to provide their IDs that show their date of birth in order to access a Chinese website.

So, as you can hope to not concern yourself with being spotted, the Internet is a ever-enlarging place, but it's the young, small and unwary children that must be taken care of before anyone gets virtually hurt (that's where FANDOM Staff and SOAP alongside the admins of certain Wikis would come in). Why are you even criticizing it in the first place? Because "ironically, COPPA gives parents the false impression their role in protecting their children from the Internet is no longer needed."[Ref.]

The discussion, therefore, has been concluded until further notice (unless you're telling me that real and honestable change takes one step at a time).