They say, that "small and medium" platforms will be exempt under Art. 13.
So, yeah, you can have little bastions of free speech there.
But they would, at the same time, not have resource to obtain licences to build news aggregates and Art. 11 would effectively prohibit them from being viable alternative.
It seems to me, that under the guise of fighting monopolist, EU is deploying the measures to make sure that the monopolists are the only one that can survive on the market.
And, it's no surprise. It is easier to bargain with, and control the monopolist faceless corporation.
It's the same China is doing right now.
They strike a deal with Google to obey by Chinese rules, and then, they will regulate all the smaller Chinese alternative out of existence.
Because Google don't care about the Chinese people. They care about money, and money alone. Unlike, perhaps, Chinese based companies. :)
Europeans Union? More like Peoples Republic of Europe. ;)
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