Hi, >Why do these restrictions exist? The reason most social media services >use an >age limit of 13 or over is in part because of a law in the USA. The >COPPA law >or Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act states that any >organisations or >people operating online services (including social media services) are >not >allowed to collect the personal information of anyone under the age of >13 > without parental permission.
Thanks for the explanations, although all of them are known. You (and others elaborating on unrelated legal explanations) might have missed that I spent weeks of discussion with GitHub's legal department on that, and they explicitly stated the one reason why they have to adhere to COPPA (see previous mail). -nik
