Thread:Family guy sucks/@comment-20644-20130719181834/@comment-20644-20130719194644

Emails often get hacked by professionals. It's a spamming scheme. It's not really comparable to someone hacking a Wikia account simply to say that the person who owns the account is under 13.

I don't want spend too much time on a hypothetical, so I'll just say this: given a choice between the benefit of the doubt and carefully following the law, we're going to choose carefully following the law. Penalties for not following COPPA can be severe, so we will treat that part of our Terms of Use strictly. Since we can't be 100% sure in most cases, we can't accept "I was hacked" an an automatic excuse.

Like I said, that will be my last comment on the hypothetical. I have nothing further to add.