The mistake here is not the prior lack of COPPA compliance. The mistake here is their rushed implementation of the compliance. Why do I feel like many compani

The mistake here is not the prior lack of COPPA compliance. The mistake here is their rushed implementation of the compliance. Why do I feel like many companies, in the exact same situation, would have also messed up? Aggressively deleting accounts of even older users due to messing up birthdate collection, with no recourse is such a bone headed move. Falling back to defensively asking for government ID can't really be counted as recourse.