User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Updates to COPPA/@comment-1590788-20130809182709/@comment-6193070-20130820040703

Harry granger, the reason your friend had been globally blocked was because Wikia is based in the United States and is a U.S. website, therefore it must follow U.S. laws and policies. If a user is under 13 years of age, then the user may not edit any of Wikia, which includes its foreign wikis. So, the user was globally blocked on Wikia, not allowing them to edit German wikis.