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Uruguay's Dual Digital Platform Regulation: Labor and Democratic Governance

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The source provides an extensive analysis of Uruguay's efforts to regulate large digital platforms, identifying two distinct legislative tracks that characterize the nation's digital governance landscape. The first track successfully established Law 20.396, which focuses on labor regulation by setting minimum protections for gig economy workers and asserting national jurisdiction over transnational companies, thus establishing a critical legal precedent. The second track involves the development of a democratic governance framework, "The Bases," which aims for platform accountability, transparency, and the defense of fundamental rights like freedom of expression, utilizing a human rights and UNESCO-aligned approach. Critically, the source argues that the political accusation of "censorship" leveled against this governance proposal is a rhetorical strategy intended to obscure the framework's actual purpose, which is to combat existing instances of corporate and algorithmic overreach and ensure due process, as exemplified by a local media censorship incident involving Google.

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The source provides an extensive analysis of Uruguay's efforts to regulate large digital platforms, identifying two distinct legislative tracks that characterize the nation's digital governance landscape. The first track successfully established Law 20.396, which focuses on labor regulation by setting minimum protections for gig economy workers and asserting national jurisdiction over transnational companies, thus establishing a critical legal precedent. The second track involves the development of a democratic governance framework, "The Bases," which aims for platform accountability, transparency, and the defense of fundamental rights like freedom of expression, utilizing a human rights and UNESCO-aligned approach. Critically, the source argues that the political accusation of "censorship" leveled against this governance proposal is a rhetorical strategy intended to obscure the framework's actual purpose, which is to combat existing instances of corporate and algorithmic overreach and ensure due process, as exemplified by a local media censorship incident involving Google.

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