Video games continue to grow in economic and cultural significance. The video game industry claimed $145.7 billion in global revenues in 2019, surpassing box office revenues at $42.5 billion and music industry revenues at $20.2 billion. Games like Fortnite and Minecraft are now fixtures of popular culture, and in the lead-up to the 2020 election Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez garnered over 4.5 million views by taking to the popular video game livestreaming platform Twitch to get out the vote.
As speech on the Internet increasingly dominates public discourse, the decision-making within Facebook, Google and the like about what to carry and what not is of ever-increasing import.