OK, you need to tell me how salty my semen is again...
I've never mentioned your "semen", Salty Walty.
Just come out of the closet.
Stop projecting, Salty Walty.
Under COPPA, you need parental consent to bring children under 13 onto a social media website. The parental consent needs to be registered with the website, and verified.
Let’s break this down based on what the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) actually says. COPPA is a U.S. federal law designed to protect the privacy of children under 13 by regulating how websites and online services collect, use, and disclose their personal information.
Under COPPA, operators of websites or online services that are directed to children under 13—or that knowingly collect personal information from children under 13—must obtain verifiable parental consent before collecting, using, or disclosing that child’s personal information.
This applies to things like names, email addresses, or other identifiers. The consent doesn’t need to be “registered with the website” in some formal registry sense, but the operator must have a process to obtain and verify it. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which enforces COPPA, outlines methods for verification, like:
- Getting a signed consent form from the parent via email or mail.
- Requiring a parent to provide a credit card or other payment method (processed but not necessarily charged).
- Having the parent call a toll-free number or video-chat for confirmation.
- Using government-issued ID (with safeguards to delete it after verification).
So, Salty Walty’s claim is off. You do need parental consent to bring kids under 13 onto a social media site
if it collects their personal info, and that consent must be verifiable through one of these FTC-approved methods.
It’s not about “registering” the consent with the site like some official database; it’s about the site ensuring it’s legit and documented. If the site doesn’t collect personal info (e.g., no sign-up, no data tracking), COPPA wouldn’t apply in that way.
@Grok
This really is not a joke.
You are a joke, Salty Walty.
Alert the authorities, Salty Walty.
I dare you, Salty Walty.
Naturally, I will understand if you don't, Salty Walty.