User blog comment:Norleon/COPPA - Appropriate or not?/@comment-30764484-20130704025603

Whoever wrote the main page description for the law didn't get it quite right. The law isn't to keep people under 13 away from certain sites, the law bans collecting/saving personal information of those under 13, which includes IP addresses, and that's what wikia uses to log anonymous comments.

Wikia then decided to ban anon users from a large number of wikis, those that seemed like they may have a large percentage of under-13 users, and because they can't know the details of each one, we, the users of those wikis, are allowed to appeal the change if we believe it shouldn't apply to us.