User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Updates to COPPA/@comment-177-20130705013600/@comment-4811793-20130706030425

"Participation" is not a defined term in the updated rule. Given the overall scope and purpose of the amended rule, taken with the specific guidance the FTC has offered on the child directed web site issue, the fact that those sites are not blocked completely behind age gates but are still accesible to a potentially underaged audience is sufficient. In any compliance plan, there is a certain amount of interpretation and reading between the lines. Ultimately, we are making a distinction between a wiki that could possibly be directed to children, but may be more of a mixed audience site and those that might not trigger the rule. This compliance plan has not been specifically endorsed by the FTC, but it does incoporporate their guidance and the overall scope of the amendments.