AOC amendment banning military from advertising on video game streaming platform fails
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez failed to gain enough votes to pass her House amendment, which would have prevented the U.S. military from advertising on Twitch.
The amendment failed with a vote of 126-292 on Thursday evening. It would have prohibited the U.S. military from airing recruitment advertisements on Twitch, a streaming platform used by online gamers, many of whom are young boys.
Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat, noted that the Marine Corps had already opted to remove its advertisements from some platforms targeted at young people. She argued that pairing military...