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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 July 2023

Paul Gowder
Affiliation:
Northwestern University, Illinois

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The Networked Leviathan
For Democratic Platforms
, pp. 239 - 245
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023
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Index

abandonment cascade, 134137
adaptive capacity, 84, 178, 188
adaptive governance, 106108
advertising, 3, 11, 16, 40, 103, 111, 146
Airbnb
economic value and, 177
market competition in, 73
network expansion and, 30
state regulation and, 54, 72
Amazon
commercial fraud and, 10, 1417, 45, 50
communicative platforms and, 7
conflicts of interest and, 16
copyright law and, 13
counterfeit goods and, 66
COVID-19 and, 7375
data abuse and, 79, 117
data collection and, 34
deplatforming and, 120
economic value and, 177
employee activism and, 117, 130
governance failure and, 16
insurrection and, 77
logistics and, 77
low-cost consumption and, 35
market concentration and, 33
Parler and, 148
political censorship and, 117
private label brands in, 117
public interests and, 76
regulation and, 197
social harms and, 71
third-party guarantors of conduct and, 118
transactional platforms and, 137
two-sided markets in, 5
user behavior and, 8, 125, 188
American Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the, 11
American exceptionalism, 50
Antitrust law
compliance and, 17, 199
democratic regulation and, 78
First Amendment and, 54
internal reorganization and, 78
international treaty and, 184
machine learning and, 78
market power and, 7679
middleware and, 79
monopolies and, 75
privacy and, 78
workplace rights and, 3
Apple, 5, 74, 77, 148, 188
architectural governance, 915
Aristotle, 41, 101
Article 19 proposal, the, 171
Arun, Chinmayi, 191192
Australian news market and, 199
Baldwin, James, 166
banning
credible commitment strategies and, 126
defense of authority and, 194
generality and, 138
great deplatforming and, 119
shadowbanning in, 113
US law and, 54
Baronian, Laurent, 20
Bevir, Mark, 19, 43
big lie, the, 34
Black Lives Matter, 17
black markets, 75
Black Panthers, the, 98
Blackwater, 43
Bloch-Wehba, Hannah, 5860, 169
blockchain, 92
Bolsonaro, Jair, 61, 64, 154
brand safety, 111113
branding, 16, 125
Buckley v. Valeo, 203
Cairo Declaration on Human Rights, the, 64
Cambridge Analytica, 34
Chatham House Rule, 26
Chen, Adrian, 174
Citron, Danielle, 13, 159
civil society, 24, 51, 52, 5759, 69, 8082, 92, 104, 139, 168, 171177, 190, 198, 205
Cleisthenes of Athens, 87, 191
CLOUD Act, 81
colonialism, 6071, 86, 98, 138, 175, 179, 194, 201, 208209
Communications Decency Act, the, 54
conservative news sources, 33
consumer protection, 55, 197
content moderation, 3, 4, 1011, 14, 25, 3436, 53, 54, 63, 7881, 8991, 99, 109, 113, 118, 133, 135163, 171, 174, 184196, 203204
copyright law, 12, 13
corporate governance
cultural competence and, 85
labor law and, 137
local context and, 83
counterfeit products, 9, 15, 17, 46
COVID-19, 53, 64, 73, 74, 115
Craig, Robin Kundis, 106108
credit card networks, 29
CSAM (child sexual abuse material), 16, 17
cyber harassment, 159
cybersecurity, 8
data collection, 34
democracy
Athens and, 19
capitalism and, 209
democratic deficit in, 168
design and, 179
Dewey and, 108, 168
Facebook and, 169
free speech and, 54
grassroots and, 89
incentive and, 87
India in, 202
insurrection and, 149, 157
international human rights and, 65
local knowledge and, 97
long-term minorities and, 58
National Endowment for Democracy, 158
platform goals and, 162, 165, 171
public interaction in, 168
public safety and, 210
Reddit in, 179
rule of law and, 53, 137, 208
social cooperation and, 177
stakeholders and, 176
statist notions of, 58
suffrage and, 176
workplace and, 167, 204
democratic deficit, 167169
DeNardis, Laura, 61, 62, 172
Dewey, John, 19, 21, 22, 58, 87, 99, 104, 108, 165171, 176, 178
Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the, 1215, 30, 43, 137
Digital Services Act, the, 61
Digital Switzerlands, 8, 206
Discord, 19, 104, 179
dispute resolution services, 8
Doremus, Holly, 107
Dorsey, Jack
deplatforming and, 120
insurrection and, 149
public decision making and, 120
state legitimacy and, 61
Douek, Evelyn, 10, 144, 206, 207
Duterte, Rodrigo, 15, 174
Eichensehr, Kristen E., 8, 206
encryption, 47, 81, 9397
engagement, 18
behavioral diversity and, 37
clickbait and, 101
data abuse and, 34
external stakeholders and, 106
punishment and, 125
recommender algorithms and, 33, 209
revenue model and, 3, 32, 111
scale and, 37
self-regulatory capacity and, 104
toxic content and, 11, 59, 111
UX design and, 190
European Charter of Fundamental Rights, the, 52
European Union, the
anti-corruption capacity and, 45
auditor oversight, 132
company incentives and, 24
credible regulation and, 200204
democratic deficit and, 167
disaggregated authority and, 196
extraterritorial effect and, 14
multilevel governance and, 195
regulatory moats and, 201
Facebook
accountability and, 88
ad transparency database in, 90
adjudication and, 188
administrative incompetence and, 169
advertiser boycotts and, 16
algorithm manipulation and, 33
amplification of pathology in, 34
antitrust law and, 76, 77
architectural governance and, 10
artificial intelligence and, 85
author bias and, 25
authority to ban in, 117
brand safety and, 16, 76
chain messages and, 80
Civic Integrity team and, 24
colonialism and, 62, 165
comments section and, 32
community and, 72
content moderation and, 10, 14, 34, 53, 76, 89, 112, 174, 192
content policy teams and, 44
cultural competence and, 15, 61, 66, 85, 86, 98
decentralized participation and, 99
deplatforming and, 153
developing markets and, 112
digital literacy and, 174
Duterte and, 14
election interference and, 109
executive political pressure and, 121
fake news and, 45
Free Basics in, 1
free speech and, 42, 203
groups and, 180
Harvard student photos and, 1
hate speech and, 15, 85, 164
indefinite suspension and, 154
informal caselaw and, 154
insurrection and, 151
interactive network affordances and, 30
Internet Research Agency and, 94
legibility and, 86
machine learning and, 15
market power and, 199
Meta Oversight Board in, 24
misinformation and, 15, 75, 109
Myanmar propaganda distribution and, 1
Myanmar use patterns in, 1
network expansion and, 30
network externality and, 63
network infrastructure and, 179
overreach and, 85, 94
Oversight Board and, 148, 154, 191
platform identity and, 164
platform size in, 170
policy enforcement and, 109
political censorship and, 110
post ranking and, 11
privacy and, 56
propaganda and, 80, 88
public sphere and, 162
Rabat Plan of Action in, 154
real name policy and, 156
recommender algorithms and, 7, 33
Republican party and, 208
revenue model of, 5
Rohingya genocide and, 14, 23, 68, 81, 92, 97
rule enforcement and, 113, 119
Section 230 exemption and, 128
social capital and, 104
Stored Communications Act, the, 81
transactional honesty and, 10
transactional marketplaces and, 6
user-governance and, 9
user labor and, 36
virality and, 71
fairness doctrine, 54
fake news, 45, 54
Fanon, Franz, 70, 71
First Amendment, 42, 43, 5255, 61, 6470, 97, 98, 103, 108, 116, 122, 137, 148, 160, 200, 203, 204, 207, 210
Floyd, George, 150
Forestal, Jennifer, 104
Fox News, 75
free speech, 156163. See also First Amendment
Gab, 77, 116
game theory, 124
gamergate, 31, 105, 159, 163, 164, 180, 207
Gillespie, Tarleton, 6
GitHub, 32, 93, 95
Global South, the, 24, 62, 63, 67, 70, 165, 187, 208, 209
Google
antitrust law and, 77
artificial intelligence and, 85
content regulation team in, 112
employee activism and, 130
insurrection and, 77
legal framework and, 44
network externality and, 63
PageRank and, 36
political censorship and, 110
search engine alternatives and, 76
search features in, 7
SEO and, 105
surveillance and, 162
website ranking in, 11
YouTube and, 35
Harris, Kamala, 111, 115, 119
hate speech, 4, 15, 54, 66, 81, 85, 86, 9499, 111, 112, 117, 119, 126, 134, 145, 156, 158, 160, 164, 180
Hawley, Josh, 75, 76, 110, 121, 128
Hayek, F. A., 19, 41, 8286
Hobbes, Thomas, 24
Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, 13
Hovenkamp, Herb, 79
human rights, 3, 13, 54, 58, 6171, 80, 89, 100, 123, 154, 155, 160, 171, 184187, 200, 204208
ID systems, 13
identitarian affinity, 3
infrastructure, 41, 46, 51, 54, 55, 61, 63, 7779, 92, 104, 106, 179
Jacobs, Jane, 19, 40, 8286, 97
January 6 insurrection, the, 2, 3, 23, 65, 77, 109, 111, 119, 120, 121, 140, 149151, 180, 206
Jin, Dal Yong, 63
Klonick, Kate, 8, 10, 36, 61, 140, 141, 147
Knight Foundation, the, 26
Korematsu case, the, 152
Kuran, Timur, 134
labor rights, 89
Land, Molly, 43
legal pluralism, 69
legibility, 92, 98
complexity and, 84
cultural competence and, 47, 86
participatory governance and, 99
lex mercatoria, 39
libertarianism, 42, 60, 61, 66, 103, 162
Lobel, Orly, 29
machine learning, 15, 20, 34, 78, 81, 172
Massachi, Sahar, 53, 181, 190
Mastodon, 4, 92
meme stocks, 31
Meng, Anne, 131
mercenary forces, 43
Microsoft, 8, 93, 95, 130
misinformation, 2, 4, 7, 1517, 34, 57, 59, 60, 64, 109, 119, 180, 208
Modi, Narendra, 58, 61, 114, 154, 178, 202
Moog, Sandra, 198, 199
multistakeholderism, 36, 107, 172, 195198, 201
Musk, Elon
alt-right and, 65
brand safety and, 76
censorship and, 111, 116
gamergate and, 31
rule enforcement and, 134
state legitimacy and, 61
toxic content and, 112
Twitter acquisition and, 4, 16
neocolonialism, 63
network structure, 24, 87, 88, 208
NetzDG law, 13
nuisance property laws, 13
Ober, Josiah, 19, 41, 88, 97, 100, 177, 178, 191
Olson, Mancur, 40, 57, 125, 144
OnlyFans, 114
open source, 32
Ostrom, Elinor, 18, 19, 79, 100105, 172
Parler, 77, 116, 120, 148
paternalism, 204
Pelosi, Nancy, 77
Pierson, Jo, 36
piracy, 45, 48, 49
platform governance
accountability in, 142
adaptive management in. See adaptive governance
architectural governance in. See architectural governance
business models and, 10
climate change and, 102
colonialism and, 165
compliance and, 138
constraint and, 108
contestation and, 166
cooperation and, 177
corporate unwillingness and, 17
cultural competence and, 143, 164
democratic decision-making and, 89
democratic deficit and, 175
ecological resilience in, 178
employee voice and, 174
expense and, 15
formal methodology and, 9
grassroots organizations and, 89
harassment and, 159
human behavior and, 86
incentive and, 175
infoglut and, 90
informational function and, 142
initiation by state in, 199
intermediary liability and, 12
intervention and, 105
labor movement and, 196
legal framework and, 9, 183
legibility and, 92
misinformation and, 17
multi-scale entities and, 171
multistakeholderism and, 195
organizational governance in, 10
Oversight Boards and, 140
owned infrastructure and, 92
political pressure and, 132
public governance in, 7
regulatory context and, 87
retail-level in, 3
robustness and, 178
role of the periphery in, 85
scale and, 9, 85, 103
self-selection and, 180
social conflict and, 192
sortition and, 90
speed of change and, 105
state agencies as users in, 177
subcultures and, 100
sustainable rules and, 140
tasks of, 3
third-party harms and, 16
user behavior and, 11
user voice and, 173
UX design and, 12, 104, 171
police overreach, 12, 13, 15, 45, 47, 66, 94, 123, 150, 208
political dissent, 13, 95
polycentric platform design, 190195
polycentricity, 99108, 172
pornography, 47, 61, 9395, 115
pragmatism, 22, 99
privacy, 50, 56, 60, 78, 81, 82
propaganda, 1, 23, 80, 81, 88, 104, 111, 141, 144, 162, 197, 208
public square, the, 137
QAnon, 50
recommender algorithms, 34
Reddit
constraint of power in, 182
cultural competence and, 19
external moderation and, 181, 196
great deplatforming and, 120
industry standards and, 184
nested regulation in, 183
polycentric governance and, 104
r/DonaldTrump in, 181
r/WallStreetBets in, 31
radicalization and, 75
self-regulatory capacity and, 104
structure of, 104, 181
regulatory moats, 201, 205
Rohingya genocide, 1, 3, 14, 23, 46, 67, 8082, 86, 88, 92, 9699, 107, 109, 162, 175, 206
Ruhl, J.B., 106108, 178
rule of law, 14, 18, 23, 24, 44, 51, 53, 62, 68, 124, 125, 127, 137143, 151, 153, 164, 182
Russia
election interference and, 9, 50, 56, 109
endogenous shocks and, 177
Internet Research Agency and, 94, 103
Meta’s Content Moderation Oversight Board and, 136
misinformation and, 34
social media subversion and, 56, 134
state propaganda and, 82
trolls and, 17
Rust v. Sullivan, 158
Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the, 52, 132
Schmitt, Carl, 120, 149, 151, 155, 165
Scott, James C., 19, 41, 82, 84, 85
shadow profiles, 56
Silicon Valley, 103, 173
skim-based revenue, 32
slum clearance, 83
social cooperation, 39, 177
social media. See also specific platforms
adaptive governance and, 177
addiction and, 72
antitrust law and, 54, 76
authorship and, 61
bias and, 121
civil society and, 139
colonialism and, 64
commerce and, 161
communicative goods and, 177
community and, 72
content sharing and, 35
councils for, 170, 171, 179, 183, 206
cultural competence and, 85, 164
data mining and, 46
democratic deficit and, 167
disinformation and, 46, 50, 82, 94
diversity and, 157
Donald Trump and. See Trump, Donald
doxing in, 159
employee-led policy and, 203
engagement and, 32, 190
excessive authority and, 79
fairness doctrine and, 54
flash crashes and, 41
free speech and, 42, 162
generality and, 138
global economy and, 63
government regulation and, 53
harassment and, 117
hate speech and, 4
industry standards and, 183
influencer culture and, 125
insurrection and, 65, 119
international law and, 199
journalism and, 72
jury structures and, 91
material support statutes and, 66
multilateral interaction and, 31
network dynamics and, 32
network externality and, 32
non-rivalrous product and, 31
open access and, 210
organized activism and, 162
participatory control and, 190
platform strikes in, 9
policing truth in, 38
political censorship and, 117, 122, 137, 161, 192
profit and, 46
propaganda and, 112, 197
public squares and, 42
recommender algorithms and. See recommender algorithms
right-wing extremism and, 208
rule enforcement and, 116
social value and, 72
subcommunities and, 179
surveillance and, 57
transactional platforms and, 5
transparency and, 133
UX design and, 133
virality and. See virality
Srnicek, Nick, 28
state governance
adaptive management and, 106
adjudication and, 188
collective choice and, 172
compliance and, 91
decentralized power and, 139
distribution in, 91
diversity and, 82
emergent threats and, 182
experimentalism and, 176
externalities in, 101
heterogeneous polyarchy and, 172
institutions and, 19
multistakeholderism and, 107
nested enterprise and, 173
political dissent and, 95
polycentricity and. See polycentricity
propaganda and, 104
shock and exception dynamic in, 149
sortition and, 197
surveillance, 2, 3, 47, 56, 57, 60, 62, 75, 93, 162
Teachout, Zephyr, 76
Technology solutionism, 74
Thai lèse-majesté law, the, 80, 192
TikTok, 184, 196
Transnational organizations, 45
Trump, Donald, 148
abuses of government in, 58
accountability and, 114123, 151
archived materials and, 191
big lie and, 34
content moderation and, 133, 162
as counter example to Carl Schmitt, 155
election interference and, 109
electoral loss and, 153
engagement revenue and, 111
fan representation and, 183
glorification of violence and, 115
great deplatforming and, 61, 111, 119, 120, 142, 148, 151, 156, 189, 191
harassment and, 115
hate speech and, 109, 164
impeachment and, 115
indefinite bans and, 148
insurrection and, 120, 148, 150
misinformation and, 109, 180
Muslim ban and, 152
oversight and, 148
parallels with Bolsonaro in, 154
platform regulation and, 122
polarization and, 2
political censorship and, 110, 117
preexisting racism and, 180
profitability and, 151
prominence and, 116, 121, 139
propaganda and, 23, 75
QAnon and, 50
Reddit and, 180
Schmitt in, 149
Truth Social in, 116
Twitter and, 110, 111, 115, 119
Truth Social, 116
Twitter, 4, 5, 16, 28, 30, 35, 38, 42, 60, 64, 66, 71, 75, 76, 98, 110121, 129, 134, 150, 161, 164, 184, 203
two-sided markets, 5
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 66
Uber, 5, 20, 72, 73, 75
urban design, 44, 92
UX design, 26, 11, 12, 20, 2325, 34, 36, 47, 51, 53, 54, 57, 66, 68, 92, 97, 101, 104106, 108, 133, 139, 163, 165, 169183, 189, 198, 203
vigilantism, 72
virality, 31, 35, 36, 104, 187, 190
WhatsApp, 47, 92, 112
whistleblowers, 27, 82, 109, 113, 115
Wikipedia, 19, 196
Wu, Tim, 76
YouTube, 7, 12, 16, 30, 32, 34, 37, 61, 76, 77, 111, 112, 188
Zuckerberg, Mark
culpability and, 2
cultural competence and, 86
deplatforming and, 120, 139, 149, 153
Meta stocks and, 131
Myanmar genocide and, 80
Oversight and, 131, 155
state legitimacy and, 61, 128
surveillance capitalism and, 2
Trump and, 150, 151

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