Private Enterprise has no legal obligation to advocate free speech.
By linking to criminal ''revenge porn'' content Google could have to defend numerous, albeit frivolous, civil suits. They have safe harbor if they unknowingly link to content that may be criminal. Civil suit is another story ...
However, I can see a lot of false claims happening for various reasons -- this policy will become a can-of-worms. Could get interesting as they would then have knowledge of the fact.
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