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The proposals, which could have required the likes of Reddit to filter content and imposed a so-called link tax on firms including Google, have been sent back to the drawing board.
At a plenary session on Thursday morning, 318 members of the European Parliament voted against the changes, while 278 voted in favor.
To read more about what the vote means for how platforms like Reddit and Facebook police content, click here.
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