Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-32293731-20200506230141/@comment-9605025-20200507024313

Fandom's Terms of Use require users to be at least 13 years of age. Users in California, USA and countries belonging the the EEA (except UK) are required to be at least 16 years of age. These are the requirements that Fandom has decided to impose due to US and EU regulations. As a user, you are not required to do anything about minors. However, you can report or block them if you wish.

Once Fandom knows about the minors, they are legally required to block them. The regulations do allow exceptions in cases where the minors have parental/guardian consent. However, the regulations do not require companies to implement these exceptions. From a legal perspective, Fandom needs to expressly obtain consent from the parent/guardian. Fandom cannot make the argument "well, they may have had consent so we didn't block them". If Fandom does not have a written statement from the parent/guardian that they can present in a court of law, then they must assume that the minor does not have consent and block them. Because obtaining, cataloging, maintaining, and storing such statements would require additional resources, most online companies don't bother and just don't allow minors at all; whether or not there is parental/guardian consent.