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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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[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 hours ago

presumably they started with a base fine of $20 and simply multiplied it by 1000 for each of their time zones

[-] r3dw4re@hexbear.net 3 points 8 hours ago

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

[-] bazingabrain@hexbear.net 118 points 1 day ago

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

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 10 points 22 hours 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

[-] lost_in_time@hexbear.net 84 points 1 day 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 50 points 1 day ago

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

[-] VOLCEL_POLICE@hexbear.net 28 points 1 day 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 1 day ago
[-] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

Basically what I expected classic

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[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 44 points 1 day ago

rizz give us a zillion dollars

[-] qaopjlll@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

Should've made it 1 Googol

[-] tripartitegraph@hexbear.net 34 points 1 day ago
[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 53 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] SadArtemis@hexbear.net 33 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] Angel@hexbear.net 81 points 1 day ago

At this point, he should've fined them a googol dollars. che-laugh

[-] coolusername@lemmy.ml 73 points 1 day ago

The court imposed a fine of 100 thousand rubles ($1,025) per day, with the total fine doubling every week.

cool

[-] kittin@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

Respect the rules based order shrug-outta-hecks

[-] dumpster_dove@hexbear.net 73 points 1 day ago
[-] booty@hexbear.net 48 points 1 day ago

Fined for $2e22

[-] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

gonna need plenty of babushkas to pay that cookie clicker ass fine

[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 38 points 1 day ago

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

[-] OgdenTO@hexbear.net 55 points 1 day ago

Fining Google one grain of rice the first day, two the second day, four the third day, and doubling every day afterwards

[-] FortifiedAttack@hexbear.net 50 points 1 day ago
[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 45 points 1 day ago

Wtf is Tsargrad, sounds like imperial monarch fartsniffing

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 42 points 1 day ago

Imperial monarch fartsniffing with fascist characteristics, yeah.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 34 points 1 day ago

Welp, let-them-fight let them fight I guess

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago
[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago

double it and give it to the next person

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 42 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] borschtisgarbo@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 1 day ago
[-] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

lol. lmao even

Death to America

[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 1 day ago

should've went for a gogol

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 33 points 1 day ago
[-] quarrk@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago

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

[-] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago

Slap on the wrist smdh hedd

[-] itsraining@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 day ago

Wasn't it an undecillion actually? (20 × 10 ^ 36)

[-] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago

That's alpha

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago

Is that real though or is just western media again pulling the Occupied Korean standards of journalism?

[-] itsraining@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 day ago

I assume it is real because I have seen this news float by in Russian media these days.

[-] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

Childish and stupid. Signs of an impotent regime.

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 6 points 22 hours ago

Nah it's funny

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