Top ten events that impacted the United States this decade

American tech companies struggled when it comes to dealing with China. Google eventually removed censorship blocks mandated by the Chinese government. Google had been doing business in China since 2000, making many magnificent censorship concessions to China.

Steve Jobs was central to the tech world's image, and his death shook the industry to the core. Inside Apple, his death seemed unthinkable, but Apple kept being Apple. Tim Cook has been a success, but his time will always been as part of the post-Jobs era.

"Avengers" has become the face of Marvel Studios and Disney. The film has led to a decade of superhero films, shifting the views of Hollywood. The Avengers launched a massive 22-film run, ending with the hit "Avengers: Endgame."

Nobody truly thought the government was secretly accessing tech companies, but former NSA employee Edward Snowden changed all that. Snowden released files that showed a program employed by the NSA to steal data from many of the biggest tech companies across the globe including: Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and AOL.

Gamergate started out as a feud between game critics and some die-hard gaming fans. It became a floating snowball of grievances. Targets were threatened and verbally abused and even doxxed.

World leaders have started to take notice of the reality of climate change, and it 2015 they vowed to tackle the matter together by signing the Paris Climate Accord, which vowed countries would cut down their greenhouse gas emissions to keep global warming from reaching catastrophic levels.

Perhaps one of the biggest upsets in election history, is the defeat of Hillary Clinton by real estate tycoon Donald Trump. Trump has since made many questionable decisions as president and continues to gain support from his followers. He is now facing re-election in 2020.

FCC chairman Ajit Pai repealed net neutrality rules, that required ISP's to offer equal access to all online content. The rules were in place by the Obama administration. Opponents claimed the repeal opened the door for ISP's to censor content and charge fees for better service.

YouTube saw massive success this decade, but the past few years have been a rough patch. In 2018, YouTube star Logan Paul filmed actual suicides inside Japan's Aokigahara forest/ "Suicide Forest." The video highlighted the controversial nature of the creators.

While Google saw Larry Page and Sergey Brin leave Google in 2019, they had not been seen in person for months. The two men were tied to Andy Rubin's sexual harassment payouts, causing them to be a major distraction.