Okay y'all, no.
It is illegal in the United States, where our servers are based, to allow them to continue to post at all without written permission from parents now that you know they are under 13. It has nothing to do with being commercial/non-commercial.
This is not a hard issue to grasp.
Rayyan, see you in two years.
Rayyan has already breached COPPA by providing you with information about their age and the email address they used to register. Their username counts as data that you are collecting and so does their posts. Not to mention whatever information they can accidentally share with you about their location by talking about local things they do, etc.
Evan, the size/activity of this website does not matter. If Rayyan's parents find out, like say if Rayyan got banned and someone here said something to hurt their feelings, the parents could sue administrators for allowing their child on the site without their permission and cite all the information that you've collected from them just from the nature of forum software, even without deliberately fishing for this information. This very thread would be used as evidence that you KNEW they were underage and encouraged that they continue to post.
This community has made a lot of enemies, which means it's much more likely than you think that MFGG would be turned in by someone with malice.
MFGG administrators cannot afford legal fees lmao. So stop trying to make them liable.
It is illegal in the United States, where our servers are based, to allow them to continue to post at all without written permission from parents now that you know they are under 13. It has nothing to do with being commercial/non-commercial.
This is not a hard issue to grasp.
Rayyan, see you in two years.
Rayyan has already breached COPPA by providing you with information about their age and the email address they used to register. Their username counts as data that you are collecting and so does their posts. Not to mention whatever information they can accidentally share with you about their location by talking about local things they do, etc.
Evan, the size/activity of this website does not matter. If Rayyan's parents find out, like say if Rayyan got banned and someone here said something to hurt their feelings, the parents could sue administrators for allowing their child on the site without their permission and cite all the information that you've collected from them just from the nature of forum software, even without deliberately fishing for this information. This very thread would be used as evidence that you KNEW they were underage and encouraged that they continue to post.
This community has made a lot of enemies, which means it's much more likely than you think that MFGG would be turned in by someone with malice.
MFGG administrators cannot afford legal fees lmao. So stop trying to make them liable.
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