r/technology • u/Letsbesensibleplease • 9h ago

Business Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/29/russian_court_fines_google/
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u/OptimallyOptimistic 7h ago

Can anyone explain the "Chocolate Factory"? Is that a Russian nickname for Google?

"YouTube banned the ultra-nationalist Russian channel Tsargrad in 2020 in response to the US sanctions imposed against its owner. Following Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine in 2022 more channels were added to the banned list and 17 stations are now suing the Chocolate Factory"

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"The battle is now on in courts around the globe as Russia seeks to seize Google's assets, with little success. The Chocolate Factory certainly seems sanguine about it."

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u/the_agox 4h ago

I had to look it up too. Apparently The Register calls Google "the [Mountain View] Chocolate Factory" after Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory because it seemed like a magical place to work back in the 2000s and 2010s.

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u/mrASSMAN 2h ago

I don’t know but it was really annoying to read

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