In 2016, a year before his company’s release of Fortnite and long before the term “Metaverse” entered public consciousness, Tim Sweeney told reporters: “This Metaverse is going to be far more pervasive and powerful than anything else. If one central company gains control of this, they will become more powerful than any government and be a God on Earth.”§11 It is easy to find such a statement hyperbolic. The provenance of the internet, however, suggests that it may not be.
I can surely see this becoming a push and pull around federal regulations of metaverse development efforts
