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Posted by: Duck duck DEATH
Posted by: CrazzySnipe55
Posted by: Duck duck DEATH
You have to be 13 years of age on virtually any site that collects information due to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998.Not sure if you're referring to my conversation, if not ignore this response.That's fine that they're pretty much mandated to have that restriction, but if the site was meant to be mature-only and have uncensored profanity on it, they could've just as easily raised that number to 17+ or 18+.Regardless of one's view on mature content on the website, there is a strong legal reason that the 13+ age requirement exists in the privacy statement of this site.
ESRB, being just a board from the Entertainment Software Association, is not backed by any government legislature, and most ratings are not enforced except in select states and local legislatures.That's fine, but not what I'm talking about.
I'm saying that if Bungie wanted this site to be a "mature" site for "big kids only", they could've raised that age in the CoC or ToU or wherever it is to 18+ or 17+ or whatever number they think constitutes old enough to be on an uncensored forum. The fact is they kept that number at the bare minimum required for them to abide by the law you mentioned, and therefore didn't want this site to be "big kids only"*.
*I'm using this hyperbolically silly phrase to refer to an adults-only or 16+ or 17+ website only because having to refer back to all the possible age restrictions they could put on an uncensored forum over and over again would be tedious. I know it sounds stupid.