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by maxbond 1284 days ago
> A User must be at least 13 years of age.

https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...

Presumably because of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Online_Privacy_Pr...

Sorry to hear you've lost access to your accounts. That really sucks.

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They say in another comment that they were flagged as spam, so the age thing doesn't seem to be the primary reason...
Looking at archive.org the user says they are a middleschooler on their github profile.
There are lots of sites where moderators don’t make a point to look for underage users, but by policy have to cut them off when they come across them. I’ve seen scenarios before wear a spurious flag for some thing irrelevant ends up having this outcome.
So all I have to do to get Microsoft to delete my data is open a support request and say Im 10? Nice to know, thanks for sharing this tip op.