Thread:Sannse/@comment-50.136.149.237-20150621172150/@comment-8-20150623175718

COPPA is all about collecting information. When you edit here, we automatically collect your IP and some other data. And when you register we ask for an email address and so on. US law says we can't do that for anyone under 13 (unless we meet certain conditions, which wikia doesn't)

So to stay within US law, we have to insist that no one under 13 edits here, and if they do we have to disable their account. It's not something we chose, it's what we have to do to keep to the law.