User blog comment:Norleon/COPPA - Appropriate or not?/@comment-12240090-20130714165340



I'd just want to make an opinion... Honestly, what would be the point of restricting the content to account users "of proper age" if there's still a 50-50% chance that the said contributer is still below 13? i mean... fine, fine... Some might be caught if they use facebook to log in here... but what if the others don't? It's getting significantly harder to tell or determine anyone in the internet anymore unless they explicitly state their identities (and even then, we're still not sure if the data is valid). That's the biggest weakpoint i think is the most akward and unavoidable. Its easier for one to falsify data than to verify. And secondly, this is the effect freedom places onto people: responsibility. I'm not encouraging anyone to do just about anything they want to because of "freewill", but isn't it ,in the end, the responsibility of the user ? I find it hard to even think that if one underaged user is caught with one profile that he/she would stop there. I know what i'm about to state is crazy... but it's damn hell possible. If the underaged is/are determined enough, they can actually just keep making even more accounts to try to get into the site (or in this case, the wiki) until they are finally unrecognized by even those of COPPA. It's not likely, but it's not impossible either.