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Great example, let's run with it...

By your analogy, COPPA would be the law that prevents people from collecting and selling children's organs. Because kids are gullible and and it's easy to convince them out of a kidney or two.

Except replace "organs" with "personally identifiable information companies want in order to market shit to you."

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The problem with this sort of forced "protection" is that it ruins my social life. That's what happens to children actually. Or I am forced to shrug off your "protection" (entering into the legal grey zone), that's what happens too.

Really? That's ultimately your beef? "It ruins my social life."

Yeah, that's it. I don't need your protection if it ruins my freedom. Children neither.

"First they came for Facebook's right to collect all of my personal information, and I didn't speak out..."

Tragic.

You managed to think yourself into a corner where a law protecting personal privacy from corporate misuse is an attack against your freedom.

I'm leaving now; don't follow me.

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