Thread:Shrev64/@comment-5876466-20130702054726/@comment-5876466-20130702060610

ScorpionTail wrote: Interesting. What exactly is this "COPPA"? COPPA is the abbreviation for the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. It prohibits the online collection of personal information by entities from children under 13 years of age. That's why you have you be at least 13 years old to create an account on a lot of sites, including Wikia. Recently, there have been updates to this law that prohibit the collection of IP addresses from children <13 altogether. Because anons are identified by their IP, they can no longer contribute (to selected wikis that are aimed toward a younger audience).