User blog comment:Wikian13000/Its illegal to be on here under 13?!?!?!?/@comment-5066566-20101027081903/@comment-26766637-20101027134006

As many users have already said, it's not Wikia's law. It's a federal law. Wikia has to comply with it to avoid legal action. Just because you feel that you're responsible enough to be on here doesn't mean that all kids under 13 are. They have to make an overarching law, they can't just make a clause that says "only responsible pre-teens allowed." They can't differentiate which ones won't divulge their personal information, so a law that protects everyone is better than the absence of a law that protects no one.