Thread:Syber.zmartie/@comment-3551372-20150311144435/@comment-3551372-20150512073100

You know it's actually fairly obvious but I'll just tell you anyway.

COPPA, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, is a law in the USA that must be abided by with USA-hosted websites to protect children online as there can be pretty disasterous content. How it is blocked to children is up the the website's decision. In Wikia's case, you must be 13 or older to make an account, if you're younger, you're expected to read the content; or even a little hardly, be an anon until you're of age.

Wikia is obviously a USA-hosted website, and no matter where you live in the world you have to abide by it because Wikia is an American website. We host this wiki on Wikia, obviously, stare up.

However, Syber above was also being harassing to several users, which is why we went against him as he refused to accept his fate and committed several acts of roleplay harm to not just me but several other users.

Many people at least 10-12 break COPPA quite regularly not understanding the consequences of such a protection. Society may have changed, but that doesn't change how dangerous the internet is for a child of that age, who isn't usually mature enough to deal with some of the things on these websites. When you're 13, you technically still are but as you're a teenager you're expected to generally know the lingo when it comes to being mature on the internet. Kids who just get released into the internet though go crazy, and I mean 13 year olds. That we cannot control, but they need to learn they need to be protected for such reasons.

K, hope that explained it. Locking this.