Add networking capability to Snap!

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I'm still confused. You said

@sir_kitten2

Woah. I just read the FTC's COPPA info. Do they seriously need the orbity globe thingy on the front page? If not, why do they have that in their TOS?

and I still don't understand how that's related to anything else in this thread.

And we've already had the conversation about Github's TOS. I said

@bh

By the way, the paragraph you quoted from their TOS is a little disingenuous. There is nothing in US law forbidding them from allowing users under 13. They just have to follow more stringent privacy requirements, just as we do and Scratch does and many other sites that cater to kids (just for example, nickelodeon-dot-com, does that still exist?), which mainly means they can't target advertising at them. (It doesn't even mean they can't serve them advertising, just not targeted advertising.)

and that's all still true.

Since the only PII they require is your email address (just as we do), they could fairly easily handle under-13 users by omitting the option to enter your real name etc. in your profile. I don't know why they don't do that; you'd have to ask them.

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Also link

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Thanks, that's an interesting page.