Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3551173-20130621025537/@comment-1173941-20130621200542

COPPA doesn't really care about rating a web-site, or appropriate content for children

COPPA is about preventing children from disclosing private information that could endanger them, without parental consent... It requires websites to provide ways for parents to give their consent, and to disallow children from doing so otherwise.

Wikia is one of the lazy websites that instead, just ban any user under 13 y/o, to avoid any paper-work... Now that COPPA is being slightly ammended, which would require websites to enforce their regulations even more (to keep up with the tech), Wikia is deciding to add age-ratings to wikis, to prevent children from editing on wikis that they're likely to edit on, as Anons.

I'm just clarifying for those who misunderstood what COPPA was about.

I was on another wiki, who banned a 12 y/o from the chat, for 3 days (lolwut? he's not gonna stop being 12 in 3 days) and they seemed to misunderstand the significance of COPPA, so I went and researched it...