Why can’t Google just not index news sites but provide other services? Perhaps their lawyers have a problem with the principle or some ambiguity around it, may

Why can’t Google just not index news sites but provide other services? Perhaps their lawyers have a problem with the principle or some ambiguity around it, maybe concerned that search engines could end up retrospectively being found to owe significant money to sites they didn't anticipate, perhaps very many sites they didn't anticipate? I'm hardly a fan of the way big tech firms, Google included, sometimes act, and I do think freeloading based on others' content is a real problem that needs addressing. However, from the legal wording I've seen quoted so far this potential law appears to require a site like Google to pay up merely for linking to content hosted elsewhere, the most basic element of the WWW. If a news site doesn't want people linking to it, maybe the WWW isn't the medium it should use to publish its material?