Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
A Russian court has ruled that Google owes Russian media stations around $20 decillion in fines for blocking their content, and the fines could get bigger.
To put that into perspective, the World Bank estimates global GDP as around $100 trillion, which is peanuts compared to the prospective fine. Google would therefore have to find more money than exists on Earth to pay Moscow - but on Tuesday fell a little short of that mark when it posted $88 billion quarterly revenue.
The bizarre amount has been calculated after a four-year court case that started after YouTube banned the ultra-nationalist Russian channel Tsargrad in 2020 in response to the US sanctions imposed against its owner.
The court imposed a fine of 100 thousand rubles ($1,025) per day, with the total fine doubling every week. Owing to compound interest, Google is now on the hook for an insane amount of money, or what the judge on Monday called “a case in which there are many, many zeros.”
i mean this is like textbook trolling but redditors will get very mad and nude about it
Reddit's response: https://reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1gf8g4v/russian_court_fines_google/
Basically what I expected
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Yeah seen a bunch of them go "heh yeah right like that's a rational number silly russians! And good luck collecting it!"
It's pretty obviously mocking. There wouldn't be any number google would find acceptable, so might as well ahve fun with it
Won’t someone think of the giant multinational corporations?!? 😔
At this point, he should've fined them a googol dollars.
Idle Clicker game numbers
Fined for $2e22
gonna need plenty of babushkas to pay that cookie clicker ass fine
The court imposed a fine of 100 thousand rubles ($1,025) per day, with the total fine doubling every week.
cool
Fining Google one grain of rice the first day, two the second day, four the third day, and doubling every day afterwards
I mean, all ultra nationalist websites should be de-indexed everywhere but that's no reason to stand in the way of this tremendous and beautiful fine.
Wtf is Tsargrad, sounds like imperial monarch fartsniffing
Imperial monarch fartsniffing with fascist characteristics, yeah.
Welp,
let them fight I guess
It is.
give us a zillion dollarsThis is how you know the soviets had a comically large spoon...modern Russia has comically large interest rates. How do you think they plan on collecting all that Google money? Scooping it up with the spoon and catapulting it by using a comically large pencil under the spoon before every Russian jumps on the spoon.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Google deserves it and more LMAO... whatever the reasoning, based. I hope someday every single country the west has smeared (ie. all of them) joins in on the legal shitposting.
should've went for a gogol
Lmao
Slap on the wrist smdh hedd
That's alpha
From what I’ve been able to find, it sounds like Article 13.41 is designed to penalize refusal to remove objectionable content. Here, it’s apparently being applied to Google’s refusal to restore specific content? Seems like a stretch to me, but it does make for a funny headline
I wanna see ol' Google wiggle their way out of this one... / s
The bizarre amount has been calculated after a four-year court case that started after YouTube banned the ultra-nationalist Russian channel Tsargrad in 2020 in response to the US sanctions imposed against its owner.
Ultranationalist, more like Ultrabatshit
Is that real though or is just western media again pulling the Occupied Korean standards of journalism?
I assume it is real because I have seen this news float by in Russian media these days.
lol. lmao even
Death to America
Should've made it 1 Googol
double it and give it to the next person
Wasn't it an undecillion actually? (20 × 10 ^ 36)
Respect the rules based order
presumably they started with a base fine of $20 and simply multiplied it by 1000 for each of their time zones
If I do remember correctly, they fined google 100k or so a few years ago, and said they're gonna double the fine after each week of non-compliance
Childish and stupid. Signs of an impotent regime.
Nah it's funny
Putin does a little trolling and you go and call him impotent. How rude
good start to my day
