# How to Govern Internet Platforms

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/how-to-govern-internet-platforms>

**By** Neil Chilson, Trevor Burrus, Aaron Ross Powell

**Published:** August 6, 2021

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Neil Chilson joins the podcast to dissect all of the backlash against Big Tech.

## Shownotes:

As governments and tech platforms seek to address the concerns driving the “techlash,” Neil talks about the lessons that provide guidance on how to avoid the worst pitfalls that could adversely affect efforts to improve the human condition online.

What is "legibility"? What concerns drive the “techlash” and what should platforms and governments do to address them?

## Further Reading:

[Seeing (Platforms) Like a State: Digital Legibility and Lessons for Platform Governance](https://scholarship.law.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1103&context=jlt), written by Neil Chilson

[Creating a new federal agency to regulate Big Tech would be a disaster](https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/10/30/creating-new-federal-agency-regulate-big-tech-would-be-disaster/), written by Neil Chilson

[It’s Time to Let a Hundred Internet Flowers Bloom](https://www.wsj.com/articles/its-time-to-let-a-hundred-internet-flowers-bloom-11553031128), written by Neil Chilson