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As far as I know, the all US military branches are prohibited from attempting to recruit individuals younger than the age of 17. I do not have have any specific
by tareqak 6y ago
As far as I know, the all US military branches are prohibited from attempting to recruit individuals younger than the age of 17. I do not have have any specific knowledge of what the specific law is, but I found the following from https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/503 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/503 after a quick search and it seems related to general idea of not collecting information about individuals younger than 17:
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10 U.S. Code § 503 - Enlistments: recruiting campaigns; compilation of directory information
(b) Compilation of Directory Information.—
(1) The Secretary of Defense may collect and compile directory information pertaining to each student who is 17 years of age or older or in the eleventh grade (or its equivalent) or higher and who is enrolled in a secondary school in the United States or its territories, possessions, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
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By default, Twitch allows individuals as young as 13 to use their site. Twitch also allows streamers who stream more mature content (language, games meant for individuals 18+) to warn viewers of this content (see https://imgur.com/a/Gv1Yfun https://imgur.com/a/Gv1Yfun for a screenshot of the warning). In fact, Twitch account managers will often reach out to streamers and ask them to enable this feature if their channel has been reported.
As of July 23, 2020 2:03 PM EDT, the US Navy Twitch channel at https://www.twitch.tv/americasnavy https://www.twitch.tv/americasnavy does not have this enabled.
- refurb 6y agoThat's covered in the article - any recruiting discussions are pulled into a private channel and include confirmation of users age.