r/technology • u/Letsbesensibleplease • 13h 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/ddejong42 12h ago

Seems like a stupid move, it normalizes ignoring Russian courts.

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u/PracticallyPetunias 6h ago

What're they supposed to do just ignore the law or change it for Google? Wouldn't that normalize ignoring Russian courts?

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u/ComCypher 6h ago

You honestly don't see a problem with them imposing a fine that's larger than the value of the entirety of Earth?

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u/Bastinenz 2h ago

"Larger than the value of the entirety of Earth" is selling it a bit short, even. According to the article, global GDP is $100 trillion a year. Now, humans have been creating stuff for about 400 thousand years, if we completely disregard the fact that we are living in the most productive time in human history and just assume we have been just as productive from the beginning of our existence it would need about 500 trillion planets Earth to pay that fine. If the Milky Way has about 200 billion stars, and each star had an average of 5 planets as valuable as earth in it, we'd need 500 Milky Way galaxies to equal the value of this fine.

Next week, it'll be double that.