Coppa?

[Crafty_]

Dude, no. You can't just say that this is black and white when laws are divided into shades of grey. You can bypass coppa with a modification to the TOS, the reason why the cmunity follows coppa was already 'answered' above. Legal issues aren't simple, you can either use coppa or not. It matters little if thr TOS is written correctly, either they do want to keep tabs on kids or this is the better way of following the law. Either or doesn't matter. Personally I believe the route chosen was smart, just not what I would have done.