Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-73.19.141.25-20200928033650/@comment-45571174-20201009145346

Elder Pleasure wrote: Masterkitty5450 wrote: it isnt a big deal. Coppa is bad is a proven fact, and he never spammed on the minecraft wiki. Plus thats not how you even spell minecraft. I will repeat, perhaps for the last time: The COPPA Rule, 16 CFR part 312, issued pursuant to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, 15 U.S.C. 6501 et seq., became effective on April 21, 2000. The Rule imposes certain requirements on operators of Web sites or online services directed to children under 13 years of age, and on operat''ors of other Web sites or online services that have actual knowledge that they are collecting personal information online from a child under 13 years of age. Among other things, the Rule requires that operators provide notice to parents and obtain verifiable parental consent prior to collecting, u''sing, or disclosing personal information from children under 13 years of age. The Rule also requires operators to keep secure the information they collect from children, and prohibits them from conditioning children’s participation in activities on the collection of more personal information than is reasonably necessary to participate in such activities. The Rule contains a “safe harbor” provision enabling industry groups or others to submit to the Commission for approval self-regulatory guidelines that would implement the Rule’s protections.

Your objections, therefore, are mostly invalid and decisively political. After all, people under 13 wouldn’t be able to fully understand much good or bad information considered against a simplified view. If this gets mentioned again, I will simply report it as a case of suspicion on FANDOM. You do know that staff can't ban a user because they THINK they are underage. There has to be PROOF of that.