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What law have they broken that they should be punished under?

The tricky thing about the digital space continues to be that, in general, it is under-regulated. It's not whether or not companies have broken laws; it's that there are so rarely laws to break.

COPPA is the only one I can think of that might possibly apply here, and nothing in COPPA says you can't build a service for 6-year-olds (only that if you're going to, it must be done carefully).



What law have they broken that they should be punished under?

It just looks bad.

Doing things just because the law allows it is a sign of low-grade thinking. It's why big companies hire /and listen to/ external PR firms.


> Doing things just because the law allows it is a sign of low-grade thinking. It's why big companies hire /and listen to/ external PR firms.

Correct! Genius thinking is doing things the law doesn't allow and hiring PR firms to make it look fine.




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