COPPAKIDS: blog of excuses kids make for getting around website age blocks

Xeni Jardin 11:07 am Thu Feb 12, 2009

Boing Boing reader Arlo Rose points us to something beautiful:

It's a web site by someone that's a community manager at a very large website. They post the ridiculous pleas of kids under the legal age set forth by COPPA (thirteen). Pure hilarity.

"COPPAKIDS: Born too late. OMG YOU GUYS LET ME ON."

Update: Ryan Govostes sez,

Just so you know, Arlo Rose isn't just a "Boing Boing reader". He invented Konfabulator, which started the whole widget fad that every search engine, operating system, and browser has duplicated. He's also notable for theming Mac OS (he write Kaleidoscope) and I think he might have worked at Apple on the design of Classic Mac OS but I don't recall entirely. His site is
http://www.mouselabs.com.

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