User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Updates to COPPA/@comment-3335785-20130624225658/@comment-1216259-20130625181656

Well, no, but we're trying to find something that appeases the law. Said law is primarily about not collecting location information on children, but they threw some dumb provisions in there about how you can't "implicitly encourage" children to lie about their ages. The thing is, children are implicitly encouraged by virtue of the fact that they will get what they want if they do. So we just have to find that magic spot where the government has arbitrarily decided that the internet stops being everyone's personal babysitter & kids start being responsible for their own actions.