User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Updates to COPPA/@comment-4097428-20130704053159

Well. This is stupid. America has made yet another pointless internet law. I'm not the least bit surprised, sadly.

Honestly, children under 13 could register for sites where you have to be over 13 and just say they're older. There's no system to 'verify' their true age. They can just falsify that. This law isn't really going to affect anything, there are ten year old kids all over YouTube.