Reclaiming Human Rights for Platform Governance: Proposals for Restoring Their Centrality in the Era of Risks
Resumen
The Digital Services Act can potentially become a tool for change toward a more rights-abiding, competitive European digital platform ecosystem. However, as it currently stands, it is prone to be misused as a powerful tool for censorship as well as a tool to displace human rights as the backbone of the rule of law in modern democracies. Its risk-based and "new governance" approach to regulation puts rights on the back burner, and, while paying lip service to them, takes them off the center stage