People will run into trouble doing everyday things like discussing the news and expressing themselves online. Locking down our freedom to participate to serve the special interests of large media companies is unacceptable, i will challenge this outcome and request a vote in the European Parliament next month.

Julia Reda

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Algorithms can not distinguish between actual copyright infringements and the perfectly legal re-use of content for purposes such as parody.

Anything Google News.Read want to publish will need to first be approved by these filters, perfectly legal content like parodies and memes will be caught in the crosshairs.