Children the age of 12 years should not be harassed for their age on the internet by hypocrites (13 year olds) who had also been harassed for their age, and vowed to destroy those fucking gatekeepers the previous year.

1. What is the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule?

Congress enacted the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) in 1998. COPPA required the Federal Trade Commission to issue and enforce regulations concerning children’s online privacy. The Commission’s original COPPA Rule became effective on April 21, 2000. The Commission published an amended Rule on January 17, 2013. The amended Rule took effect on July 1, 2013.

The primary goal of COPPA is to place parents in control over what information is collected from their young children online. The Rule was designed to protect children under age 13, while accounting for the dynamic nature of the Internet. The Rule applies to operators of commercial websites and online services (including mobile apps and IoT devices, such as smart toys) directed to children under 13 that collect, use, or disclose personal information from children, or on whose behalf such information is collected or maintained (such as when personal information is collected by an ad network to serve targeted advertising). The Rule also applies to operators of general audience websites or online services with actual knowledge that they are collecting, using, or disclosing personal information from children under 13, and to websites or online services that have actual knowledge that they are

collecting personal information directly from users of another website or online service directed to children. Operators covered by the Rule must:

1. Post a clear and comprehensive online privacy policy describing their information practices for personal information collected online from children;
   
2. Provide direct notice to parents and obtain verifiable parental consent, with limited exceptions, before collecting personal information online from children;
   
3. Give parents the choice of consenting to the operator’s collection and internal use of a child’s information, but prohibiting the operator from disclosing that information to third parties (unless disclosure is integral to the site or service, in which case, this must be made clear to parents);
   
4. Provide parents access to their child's personal information to review and/or have the information deleted;
   
5. Give parents the opportunity to prevent further use or online collection of a child's personal information;
   
6. Maintain the confidentiality, security, and integrity of information they collect from children, including by taking reasonable steps to release such information only to parties capable of maintaining its confidentiality and security;
   
7. Retain personal information collected online from a child for only as long as is necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected and delete the information using reasonable measures to protect against its unauthorized access or use; and
   
8. Not condition a child’s participation in an online activity on the child providing more information than is reasonably necessary to participate in that activity. 
   

2. Who is covered by COPPA?

The Rule applies to operators of commercial websites and online services (including mobile apps and IoT devices) directed to children under 13 that collect, use, or disclose personal information from children. It also applies to operators of general audience websites or online services with actual knowledge that they are collecting, using, or disclosing personal information from children under 13. The Rule also applies to websites or online services that have actual knowledge that they are collecting personal information directly from users of another website or online service directed to children.

The very least the 13-year-old gatekeeper hypocrites could do is to upkeep the tradition and safeguard this shrine we call the world wide web. We must pressure the 12 year olds to cry to their parents so that they are saved from the greater pain of writing something they deeply regret and their parents as well as the website that enabled it aren't in legal issues over what the 12-year-old typed.

Snyder and Barnett (2006) assert that for informed consent to be valid, four criteria must be met:

• Consent must be given voluntarily.
  
• The client must be competent (legally as well as cognitively/emotionally) to give consent.
  
• We must actively ensure the client’s understanding of what she or he is agreeing to.
  
• The information shared and all that is agreed to must be documented.
  

The first three of these criteria are of special significance when seeking to obtain informed consent in the treatment of minors.

Planning skills begin to develop in infancy as we learn to focus on objects and make intentional body movements like grabbing and pointing. As we grow into our early learning years up to age 12, planning skills allow us to understand more complex instructions and follow steps to meet goals. By the time we reach adolescence, we can begin to independently plan out the steps to larger projects, including working with others to meet goals. As adults, we’re able to develop and maintain multiple different plans to meet many different objectives at one time.

Either the law intends to protect children/kids or it doesn't.

What this means is that basically if someone has severe Down's Syndrome or any severe cognitively and/or emotionally debilitating condition where it truly is too difficult to know if they consent or not, you must approach very cautiously and not assume they want any invasive therapy whatsoever until they first improve said condition over time and can display consent (or if their situation is so dire, such as attempted suicide that they need it).

What COPPA does is actually try to find the lowest age that everyone who is an adult pretty much has agreed is an age below which a huge proportion of minors can't properly assess situations online, grasp context or the gravity of what they're typing and the data they are giving away 

Pro never defines the term harassment and how severe I have to back it.

but the harsh truth is that these people shouldn't be on the Internet.

In other words, if a 12-year-old is in an environment online where they are able to be harassed, the parents are doing their job wrong. Therefore, the only hope is they get upset and admit to their parents what they did and how bad an experience it was, seeking some form of comfort and reassurance from the parents. Another thing to consider is that the Internet has quite a few nasty pieces of work indeed but the capacity of a 13-year-old to be deeply damaging and cruel is going to be far less sophisticated than an older person, which the 12-year-old should be warded away from the Internet before ever interacting with.

I am not denying teens can be very sociopathic, I am saying an older teen or certainly older adult is far more capable of constructing a brutally harsh series of abuse or predatory scheme than a 13-year-old is. That should just be a known fact. This is actually linked to why 12 is the maximum age where it's considered the maximum age as well. Until 12 (maximum so 13 is the semi-guarantee) the brain itself is not even considered fully capable of planning in and of itself as a proper executive function with levels to the plan:

This should be almost self-evidently true, since the 13yearolds are the least experienced age group out of the lot who can freely type on the Internet, at life itself and at dealing with people.