User blog comment:Wintermelon43/So, we already have coppa...../@comment-24491155-20141012163623/@comment-1824272-20141012173253

@Tupka217 Since Wikia is based in the U.S. (San Francisco, to be specific), COPPA is enforced on Wikia. There was an update concerning this last year; see User blog:Semanticdrifter/Updates to COPPA.


 * If a wiki has content targeted towards children, that wiki will not allow anonymous contributions.
 * You have to be 13 years or older to create an account on Wikia.

@IvyLover COPPA protects the privacy of everyone who is younger than 13 years old accessing the internet. Without it, we would have a lot more problems with children's privacy. It's a very, VERY helpful law. It's not a rule, by the way; it's a federal United States law.