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Generally the demarcation line of age is 13 in the US due to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Online_Privacy_Prote...



I thought COPPA allowed a guardian to approve?


Yeah, but it adds a bunch of requirements on the operators that most don't want to have to abide by; it's easier to just ban <13 year olds.


Yeah, that makes sense.




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