Overview: The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, also known as the acronym COPPA is a United State federal law designed to protect children under 13 years of age from data collection. This law provides guidelines for websites regarding privacy policies, parental and/or guardian consent and marketing restrictions.
Background: Senator Richard Bryan introduced COPPA to the Senate on July 17th, 1998. Less than one year later, United States President Bill Clinton signed the bill into law.

COPPA is meant to be serious, but sucks so much its a meme. They are extremley annoying and banned Elsa Gate after a very long time, but Elsa Gate came back and most children's content on YouTube should be obliterated anyways.