User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Updates to COPPA/@comment-15705679-20130809184920/@comment-20644-20130815201211

There's an important, albeit thin, distinction here that you need to remember: the law is not forbidding you from registering an account on Wikia. It's forbidding us from allowing you to register an account. It's not a restriction on what you can do, it's commercial regulation. The difference is small, but it's a difference nonetheless.