Those with the money, buy the polliticians, who make the laws. It's quite simple really.
Personally I don't agree that linking to something should be illegal, but in the age of bittorent you have media organisations grasping at straws, buying overly broad and harsh laws in order to cover their business model.
Blaming google for having a link to something is like blaming a kitchen knife manufacturer if someone uses their knives to stab someone or a mobile phone provider if some bad people use their network to set off a bomb. Google employees don't upload the copyrighted videos to youtube, users do.
They have to be seen (enough to satisfy the courts) to be 'actively working to remove' said copyrighted works to keep other companies lawyers off their backs.
On another note: Spacing and paragraphs make your ideas easier to read.
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