You're really going there? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children

You're going there? It has less to do with them than me having to take the time to address an issue that should never have existed in the first place.

Are you implying that everything done in the name of protecting children is always a Helen Lovejoy kind of overreaction?

I think this is in most cases true, where children are (ab-)used as a justification to reduce freedoms of adults.

> personal info is one way to keep child predators aware of the fact that their actions can be traced back to a real person.

And in case of a data leak, all the (anonymous) predators know which players are children and where they live.

They can get that from census data. Thank you for playing.

I think the parent comment was referring to the fact that the predators could find out where the children they're playing with live, not that they could find children in general. As far as I know, the census forms don't include a "Minecraft player" checkbox.

If your kids don't know not to give out their password to random people on the internet: 1) nothing Microsoft can do will fix that and 2) they probably shouldn't know their password in the first place.