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[winjer]

YouTube was banning Russian channels even before Vladimir Putin's forces invaded Ukraine. In 2020, the service banned the Tsargrad TV channel and RIA FAN due to what Google said were violations of sanctions legislation and trade rules.

YouTube banned more of the nation's channels in 2022 following Russia's invasion of its neighbor, including RT, Sputnik, NTV, and more.

According to Russian language site RBC, 17 channels are suing Google over the bans. Russian courts previously ordered Google to restore the channels. If the company failed to do this within nine months, it would be fined 100,000 rubles ($1,025) for each day of non-compliance. The amount doubles every week until Google complies, with no limit on the total fine.

Thanks to compound interest, Google now owes two undecillion rubles. A decillion is a 1 followed by 36 zeros. It's the US equivalent of about 20.5 decillion dollars, with a decillion being a 1 followed by 33 zeros.

This is by far, the biggest fine any tech company ever got.
It's also the funniest, because Google seems to not care about it.

 

[jason10mm]

This is by far, the biggest fine any tech company ever got.
It's also the funniest, because Google seems to not care about it.

This reminds me of a book about aliens that start passing around earth music (our only valuable cultural export) and eventually find out that we charge for that and now the galaxy owes us a nigh infinite amount of space bucks, thus its easier to just destroy the earth...

Maybe google will 'take care' of the Putin problem for the rest of us

 

[Tieno]

they're waiting till it's a....googol dollars!

 

[TrueLegend]

More like some heads will roll in Google and you won't see it on news.

 

[kanjobazooie]

What in the Cookie Clicker...

 

[The Cockatrice]

Eh, pocket change.

 

[violence]

A few more years of inflation will turn this into a more reasonable number

 

[Complistic]

Google gonna pay the minimum payment for the next 1 billion years.

 

[SJRB]

Pay in cash and carpet-bomb it over Moscow from an airplane.

 

[Pejo]

Actually comically hilarious. This is one of those "life is stranger than fiction" moments.

 

[Hrk69]

Fucking dumb asses

 

[Saber]

How they gonna pay it? In cash or in social brownies?

 

[Atrus]

The fine is in Roubles so it will eventually work out to be worth pennies in actual money.

 

[6502]

Cheaper for them to create convential armed forces and tell Putin they want to take it outside.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

More like some heads will roll in Google and you won't see it on news.

YouTube is not essential service.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

lol that's 7 steps further from a trillion, there isn't even 1 step further from a trillion total in the entire world; literally unpayable.

 

[Soodanim]

$20,500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.00

That's 29.3 quintillion PS5 Pros

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

You're having a giggle m8

 

[HoodWinked]

just wait until the fines are more than the worth of the company then you can get the Google company for free.

 

[AJUMP23]

I side with Russia on this one.

 

[Fake]

Russia: 'Pay us $20.5 decillion dollars'
Google: 'Here you go.'

 

[winjer]

Google's reaction...

 

[chakadave]

One time aUS court tried to fine someone $3 trillion dollars.

 

[Soodanim]

just wait until the fines are more than the worth of the company then you can get the Google company for free.

 

[Calico345]

We know now the precise intersection of ego and idiocy.

 

[Snaggletooth]

Got to pay for the hired help somehow.

 

[niilokin]

Why would Google care other than have a massive laugh about it?

 

[sono]

What is the enforcement action

 

[kapshin]

Pay them in Play Store rewards in payments

 

[dave_d]

Why would Google care other than have a massive laugh about it?

Polonium? He wouldn’t be crazy enough to do that right?(Wait it’s Russia so maybe)

 

[Gp1]

Pay it.

In Russian Rubles

 

[MikeM]

Russia trying to get google to pay their war bill lulz

 

[West Texas CEO]

What is the enforcement action

Invade Google.

 

[winjer]

Pay it.

In Russian Rubles

The value of the fine is in Rubles. And it's two undecillion rubles.
That's 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Russian roubles.

 

[West Texas CEO]

Oogles

 

[BlackTron]

Russia must be upping their tech to have a calculator now that can work with this number.

 

[Venom Snake]

 

[EverydayBeast]

Paying your debt is important Google, math aside it’s like everyone is suing Google

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[mitch1971]

How they gonna pay it? In cash or in social brownies?

A cheque (tied to a nuke).

 

[Trilobit]

$20,500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.00

That's 29.3 quintillion PS5 Pros

Or the cost of one maxed out Mac Mini.

 

[Soodanim]

Or the cost of one maxed out Mac Mini.

Not including monitor stand