User blog comment:Romeo51637/Feeding Quicksilver Slimes - Tips and Tricks/@comment-444327-20180321011657/@comment-26440657-20180324034235

There are children on the internet that are smart and/or mature enough to act appropriately so people won't notice how young they actually are, especially if they manage to hide all personal info relating to their age. If they can pull it off then they could probably handle being on the internet, I've seen some like that and became teenagers without problems but still, most children likely wouldn't be able to manage that.

Learning how to manage on the internet through mistakes shouldn't count, that's the reason why they shouldn't be allowed online in the first place, they could just endanger themselves somehow if they make a mistake in the wrong place at the wrong time around the wrong people, simply just seeing the wrong things too early could be bad for them.

Maybe more and more children these days would get the hang of being online because being on the internet is common and just gets easier as the years pass by but COPPA still doesn't agree with that, at least not as of now. I assume parents would have better/easier ways to filter what their kids could access on the internet eventually though.