Reddit prohibits users under the age of 13 from creating accounts or using the platform, and users aged 13-17 may only use Reddit with parental consent and subject to additional restrictions.
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The provision operationalizes Reddit's legal obligation under COPPA to restrict data collection from minors under 13, establishing the service's age-gating mechanism and defining the scope of users to whom the agreement applies. This restriction shapes Reddit's user eligibility requirements and data handling obligations across the platform.
Parents are responsible for preventing children under 13 from accessing Reddit; the platform's age verification mechanisms are limited to self-attestation at account creation, creating a significant child safety gap.
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The Meta Products are not directed to children. Access to or use of Meta Products by anyone under the age of 13 is not allowed. If you are based in the EU, you must be at least 16 years old, or the minimum age in your country if it is higher than 16, to use or access Meta Products, unless your count...
You may not automatedly crawl or query the Services for any purpose or by any means (including, without limitation, screen and database scraping, spiders, robots, crawlers and any other automated activity with the purpose of obtaining information from the Services) unless you have received prior exp...
relate to transactions involving (f) the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory or the financial exploitation of a crime... (i) involve offering or receiving payments for the purpose of bribery or corruption.
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REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This provision directly implicates COPPA (15 U.S.C. §6501 et seq., 16 C.F.R. Part 312), which prohibits collection of personal information from children under 13 without verifiable parental consent, enforced by the FTC. The EU's GDPR Art. 8 sets the digital age of consent at 16 (or as low as 13 where member states have legislated), and the EU's Digital Services Act Art. 28 requires Very Large Online Platforms to implement robust age verification for minors. The UK Children's Code (Age Appropriate Design Code) under GDPR UK Art. 8 requires privacy-by-default for users likely to be under 18. California's Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (CAADCA, AB 2273) imposes additional obligations for services likely to be accessed by minors.
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The provision operationalizes Reddit's legal obligation under COPPA to restrict data collection from minors under 13, establishing the service's age-gating mechanism and defining the scope of users to whom the agreement applies. This restriction shapes Reddit's user eligibility requirements and data handling obligations across the platform.
Parents are responsible for preventing children under 13 from accessing Reddit; the platform's age verification mechanisms are limited to self-attestation at account creation, creating a significant child safety gap.
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