Thread:RUNEPATRIARCH/@comment-35029270-20190525214100/@comment-37919779-20190526131831

You really think they'd be able to look at every single contribution on every single site from every single user? Some users ask others for personal information, (Mostly trolls do that). Imagine this: A troll asks a kid for personal info (Address, phone #, etc) by the time a Staff member or local admins sees it, the kid has already given out their address, the stalker is coming to their house, and the kid gets kidnapped or killed. That may be hypothetical, but it happens every day with Facebook and others, and it's just awful. Well, this site is doing everything possible to prevent that, and the best way to do that is keep kids under 13, (and in a ceratin part of the UK, kids under 16) offline.

Also, the law is not just to prevent private information. Someone could post inappropriate content that is not suitable for kids, and while it should be a family-friendly site, Lots of times trolls come on and post inappropriate things. (This site has been rather quiet so far this year, but last December there was a blitz of them) and kids must not be exposed to such things. They are at the age weretheir life is being shaped, and the last thing they need is to have it all twisted up by explict content. Also, s