Yesterday, the Protect Our Games Act (AB 1921) has passed on the California State Assembly floor with a 43–16 vote! Now it heads to the California State Senate, and this is where it needs your help!
If you live in California, or know someone who does:
Find your State Senator here, then go to their ‘Contact Me’ page and submit your support for AB 1921 - the Protect Our Games Act. Please include a short explanation as to why you support games preservation.
If you live in another state, or know someone who does:
Send your support to the Chair of the Senate Privacy Committee here.
Everyone around the world can also help!
Help exposure by reposting / sharing one of these links in your circles:
You can e-mail the Senate Privacy, Digital Technologies, and Consumer Protection Agency at [email protected] and express your interest and support for this bill internationally.
French volunteer needed in Paris…
SKG is in urgent need of a French gamer that can meet us in Paris on June 8th. This is for a brief television interview - for a story that is being prepared. Beyond the SKG representative, they also wish to interview a local / French gamer and film some seconds of gaming. If you fit the profile and availability, please contact us urgently! You can open an ‘inquiries’ ticket on the unofficial community server at: (https://discord.gg/TCE6uXwsBe).
Supplementary…
We would like to thank our supporters from all over the world for their continued efforts. It is with you that we have together paved the way for a tomorrow where we have a choice to keep the things we buy and play the games we love when we want to play them. Please remember that your strength is our strength and now we need it more than ever. This is your movement. We are here to give you - the gamer, the consumer - a voice that can be heard by those who we have elected globally to make a difference. Let us call on them together and make sure that the industry with whom we are petitioning against will stop killing games once and for all.
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