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.”
You must log in or register to comment.
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
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.
Fining Google one grain of rice the first day, two the second day, four the third day, and doubling every day afterwards
i mean this is like textbook trolling but redditors will get very mad and nude about it
i mean this is like textbook trolling but redditors will get very mad and nude about it
I am mad and nude right now
Get your clothes back on now or I’m calling the volcel police!
The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.
نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.
The court imposed a fine of 100 thousand rubles ($1,025) per day, with the total fine doubling every week.
cool
Wtf is Tsargrad, sounds like imperial monarch fartsniffing
Imperial monarch fartsniffing with fascist characteristics, yeah.
Welp,
let them fight I guess
It is.
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
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
This 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.
That’s alpha
Slap on the wrist smdh hedd
Lmao
