@claudius

When the whole shitstorm broke out I did spend a few weeks following up and reading the actual text of the directive.

The criticism was 90% totally manipulated ("ACTA2" name) and exaggerated or even completely invented ("ban private blogs" etc). The remaining 10% of valid criticism was fixed in the subsequent drafts.

But the key thing was if the legislation was bad for Google, they would not so aggressively lobby against it. And they did as hell, so I'm confident :)