This goes well beyond Steam and Itchio. As we are nearing 200K Signatures, I thank everyone who has signed, but YouTube, X, Spotify, and various others are now requiring us to verify our ages and identities with Government IDs and Photographs, compromising our privacy in the name of "Security," "Protecting Children," and a lot of other $5 words. Around the world, the Online Safety Act, the Kids Online Safety Act, and the new one, the SCREEN Act, are not meant to protect children. IT'S TO SILENCE CRITICS AND CITIZENS FOR "WRONG THINK". This is straight from George Orwell's book "1984" where the world is nothing but surveillance and no privacy. First, Payment Processors and so-called Activist groups went after adult material and entertainment, and our fiction. Now, with the help of corrupt government bodies, they're after our horror games, our music, and our regular entertainment. What's next? Our History? Our Classic Literature? OUR VOICE? OUR LIVES?

There is a possibility that this petition will be given an overhaul. Let it be clear, I am not ending this petition, but now it's a fight against censorship and invasive surveillance. Not only do we need payment processors and video game marketplaces to hear our voice, but our governments need to hear our voices loud and clear. CENSORSHIP IS WRONG. WE WANT TO KEEP OUR PRIVACY. FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND EXPRESSION SHOULD BE ABSOLUTE. Keep spreading this petition around to your friends and family online and offline. To those in the UK seeing this, spread this around. LET YOU'RE VOICES BE HEARD even if the people in government office have their heads in the sand.