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Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (www.theregister.com)
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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.”

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[-] bazingabrain@hexbear.net 123 points 3 weeks ago

i mean this is like textbook trolling but redditors will get very mad and nude about it

[-] lost_in_time@hexbear.net 86 points 3 weeks ago

i mean this is like textbook trolling but redditors will get very mad and nude about it

I am mad and nude right now

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 52 points 3 weeks ago

Get your clothes back on now or I'm calling the volcel police!

[-] VOLCEL_POLICE@hexbear.net 30 points 3 weeks ago

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.

volcel-police

[-] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 3 weeks ago
[-] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 15 points 3 weeks ago

Basically what I expected classic

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[-] REgon@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah seen a bunch of them go "heh yeah right like that's a rational number silly russians! And good luck collecting it!" smuglord

It's pretty obviously mocking. There wouldn't be any number google would find acceptable, so might as well ahve fun with it

[-] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 1 points 3 weeks ago

Won’t someone think of the giant multinational corporations?!? 😔

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