Stop Killing Games has joined a big coalition pushing back against new age verification laws that claim to be for our safety. Big companies can afford the costly ID checks and rules, while small teams, fan fixes for private game servers, and community projects usually cannot. These are exactly what keep old games alive after the makers stop supporting them. One example is the free browser game Urban Dead, which ran for nearly 20 years until its solo developer shut it down in 2025 because UK rules made it too hard to continue. Stop Killing Games signed an open letter with groups like Mozilla and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The letter says that while protecting kids online matters, these wide age checks create new gatekeepers, collect private data, and shrink the open web. Some of that the rules could make private servers and even some Linux systems illegal in places like California. Games we own should stay playable