AGE RATING ON FURRY AMINO

Hello everyone, we're here with a PSA on an issue that's been tossed around a lot over Furry Amino's time.

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AGE RATING ON FURRY AMINO

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Team Amino have recently updated their TOS to say that they will now be banning any under the age of 13 regardless as to if they have parental consent or not. This is to coincide with COPPA that states that individuals under 13 have not yet reached an age where they are legally aware enough to share their details on public sites and forms like Amino, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc [some of these sites vary in age regarding their own rules]. This is about collecting data, like name, location etc, all the things that come with g up a site like the ones listed above.

This is NOT our personal opinion. This IS NOT about maturity. This is the LAW.

Click here for the full Amino TOS

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SO WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

- If Furry Amino Staff have evidence that a is under the age of 13 then they will be banned. Evidence includes but is not limited to itting age in their bio, pms or public chats.

- We must have proof from the themselves that they said it. We do not accept ''He told me'' as evidence.

- Once the has sured the age of 13 their will be unbanned. s who have reached their 13th birthday are more than welcome to either make a new or make an to staff to unban their original.

- Don't make a joke. We can't tell if you're joking about it or not. If we ban you and you claim you were joking then you will have to supply ID evidence. If you do not have any then your ban appeal will be rejected.

We understand that a new, separate European law was made raising the age of consent for data collection to 16. We will NOT be banning these s. If you are in one of the applicable areas please not that you are making an at your own risk of it being disabled by your authorities.

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WHY DID WE NOT DO THIS BEFORE?

This issue has had a lot of history. We used to ban s under the age of 13, until Team Amino told us that they would do it on our behalf because we were a larger Amino. It came to our attention that they were not banning s under the age of 13 and we, therefore, ed them consistently for clarification.

It has always been against the rules for s under the age of 13 to be on Amino. Not by our rules, but by the rules of the law.

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''THIS IS UNFAIR, THEY DID NOTHING WRONG''

We understand that you or your friend may not have broken any other rules, may be a great upstanding member of the community or just a nice person, but we cannot make any exceptions for this.

As stated previously this is not a decision we take lightly. We understand that young people are the future of this community and that they are prized here. But we also have to protect them. As s we are trying our Ibest to protect everyone. Unfortunately, that means banning s under the age of 13 to coincide with legal standards.

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From now on, we ask for your continued co-operation and we hope you have a lovely day.

Fondest regards, the Furry Amino Staff Team.

#PSA

Post Originally Created on 02/08/19 by Clio