Reply To: COPPA, the FTC and Youtube content appealing to children.

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The problem isn’t parents. It’s the type of over protective idiot who wants to tell others how to behave.

It’s the activist groups who claim to speak for parents and either force companies to settle (and thereby providing the activist group with free money as none ever reaches the people they claim to represent) or result in the creation of silly laws by politicians with zero knowledge of the technological limitations, the scale and the human cost (you don’t want to be the one who has to see the things kids/adults should not see).

Both the EU Cookie wall and DMCA are a excellent examples of this sort of thing.

It may be technically illegal to make a false DMCA complaint, but I doubt the average content creator has the means to even consider fighting these incidents. Add to this that you need a lawyer who understands this sort of thing to begin with.

I doubt COPPA will be any different.

Never mind that there is no legal way to create an age gate that works, because you’d have to make websites ‘members only’ and require legal copies of Id’s to validate the age of your members.
Net result is that sites catering to such content either shut down (because it’s not worth the effort) or go underground …