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You know that the "PP" in COPPA stands for "privacy protection," right? It's not "child protection."
by deleted_account 14y ago
You know that the "PP" in COPPA stands for "privacy protection," right? It's not "child protection."
- guard-of-terra 14y agoSo you assume it protects privacy from children?
- deleted_account 14y agoNo, I assume it's intended to protect the privacy of children. Seriously, go read it (http://www.coppa.org/coppa.htm http://www.coppa.org/coppa.htm). You're getting your jimmies rustled under the pretense that COPPA has anything to do with protecting children from the "evils" of the Internet.
- guard-of-terra 14y agoSo you don't see how protecton of privacy of children is a subset of protection of children?
- deleted_account 14y agoWhen you define it as such, yes. But here's the distinction: the "protection of privacy" is not a subset of the "protection of children." You're throwing COPPA into the same bucket as every other misguided attempt to shelter children from the boogeymen of the Internet. That's not its intent; you're misinterpreting it.
- guard-of-terra 14y agoI judge it on the merit exclusively; that's what you should do with any laws. By its results. And the results are not pretty: we are now growing a generation of liars who learned to lie by default, as a pre-requisite to everything.