Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28279817-20190806113938/@comment-37194541-20190810124640

C.Syde65 wrote:

RedIgnite wrote: If you're under 13, you can create an account only if you provided your parent's email and you do not reveal your actual age or anything personal. We shouldn't encourage underage users to violate COPPA since it's not a good idea to encourage users to do things they shouldn't be doing. Just saying. It’s only legal if they put their parents or guardian’s email and agree to never reveal their actual age (And if they do, then we'll block them until the year in which their 13th birthday arrives).

But COPPA is a piece-of-garbage law that never worked (Many 10, 11, and 12 year olds continue to use social media) so what’s the point in supporting it? AFAIK, I began using social media (But not Wikia) at 11 years of age. Luckily, they can’t ban me now that I’m 22 :P

Even if we discourage pre-teens from violating COPPA, they’re still going to create an account no matter what, it’s impossible to stop them.