User blog comment:Prince Fluff of Patch Land/It had to come up eventually.../@comment-27725096-20160531230034/@comment-27304481-20160531232130

They aren't paranoid, they want to protect minors. They have the statistics and data that support the need to protect this demographic, and so they enforce the law to prevent disaster. The sites don't have to prevent 12- crowd, but its easier to do that then do what is necessary to make them safe,