User blog comment:Wikian13000/Its illegal to be on here under 13?!?!?!?/@comment-1534328-20101030165547/@comment-1899984-20101031035310

And laws shouldn't be judged based on personal definitions of maturity...

Maturity does not equate to sensibility (common or otherwise), nor does it equate to intelligence and ability to do not stupid things. In the end, you are labeling things incorrectly. Regardless of this, it is still irrelevant as the 13+ ruling has no influence from Wikia, it is purely law. While it may not be strictly upheld, outrage over something like this, reveals "maturity". You may as well be outraged that the minimum age for drinking (legally) is 21. Even though we all know, there aren't a lot of teenagers that adhere to that.

As for why is the limit set at 13? Someone, somewhere, or so someone said, concluded or did a study that came out with the results that 13 is the average cut-off age for a teen to be able to make logical assessments of what s/he should and shouldn't share on the internet (or anywhere for that matter). This of course, like anything else, is completely open to variables, but in the end it boils down to statistics (which i hate and are usually just made up) and the majority/norm.

I really don't know how this discussion got this far. If I had known it would have, I would have posted this sooner.