Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3026053-20130621001540/@comment-4811793-20130621192640

Mbg2 wrote: There is not such a thing as restricting, either you collect that information or you don't, By "restrict" I meant keep from collecting.

Sorry, but I just don't see it. More and more it seems like just a wikia policy, where the law is used as an excuse to make it easier to swallow, because most wont argue with law. How does this benefit Wikia? We do believe in the ideal of open editing, and if we didn't have to comply with federal law we certainly wouldn't go to all this trouble. Anonymous editors often become users on their own, and we recognize the value of their contributions in most cases. Aside from federal regulatory compliance, there isn't much of an upside for us.