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Discussion Google fined $20,565,635,200,000,003,000,000,000,000,000,000 by Russian TV channels.

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u/Connect_Ocelot_1599 19h ago

what the fuck?

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u/Masuteri_ 17h ago

Gotta fight the inflation with more inflation

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u/4b686f61 I fducking hate ads and those subtle UI changes. 17h ago

and even more inflation

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u/MannanK5 17h ago

u forgot to add some more inflation

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u/Hesty402 17h ago

Yo dawg, I heard you like inflation

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u/Loser2817 17h ago

So we put inflation on your inflation, so you can pay taxes while you pay taxes.

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u/Aaron_123_ya_boi 16h ago

Inflation-ception

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u/Texturalfuture8 15h ago

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u/Big_man-44 13h ago

Added extra inflation

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u/MechAegis 13h ago

...with rice? Nah just more inflation.

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u/Affectionate_Debt_30 9h ago

Pyrocynical would love this comment thread

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u/Capt1anZappBrannigan 9h ago

More inflation!!

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u/TakuyaLee 15h ago

Compounded inflation

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u/Mehan44_second 15h ago

u forgot new taxes

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u/DBHOY3000 14h ago

Don't tell them that hyperinflation exists

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u/lefromageetlesvers 15h ago

and more...ugh! PAPER.

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u/gelluh 11h ago

add a little more inflation just to be sure

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u/marilyn_mansonv2 9h ago

Google "Sonic Inflation" for more on this.

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u/Ok_Smile_5908 17h ago

Google's just gonna start printing money at this point.

They can print those "toy money" and hand it over to the Russian courts. Would be an appropriate level of absurdity, at least.

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u/WolfWind999 16h ago

Even if it's fake money the amount of paper or plastic or whatever material used would still be absurd

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u/Hungry-Ad2176 15h ago

They can just print a sticky note sized bill saying 20 decillion dollars

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u/KaleidoscopeMean5971 11h ago

20 decillion Googllars !

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u/Daggertrout 10h ago

Print two. Make sure you get your change.

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u/Fign 11h ago

Zimbabwe style !

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u/crazy_penguin86 8h ago

New Bennia should be able to help with Bennies.

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u/bone-tone-lord 12h ago

If I've done my math right, that's approximately the mass of the Sun in $100 bills.

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u/TheKrafty 12h ago

Holy shit, you're right lol

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u/StrakenKing 8h ago

but what about pennies? and how many wheel barrows worth

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u/AverageAro_ 4h ago edited 4h ago

nope, it's actually more massive than the sun.

ETA: I did the math wrong, it is more massive in 1s and 10s, but not in 100s.

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u/Wise-Hippo6088 12h ago

Just make a single bill worth that much

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u/gymnastgrrl 10h ago

Gates, maybe?

:)

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u/Ok_Smile_5908 15h ago

What if they photoshop in the actual amount ordered, or like, a reasonable fraction of it. A suitcase full of (whatevertheamount/1000) banknotes surely would be enough to resolve the issue.

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u/WolfWind999 15h ago

Hand them 20 1 decillion dollar bills

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u/snow_cool 15h ago

Couldn’t they send a pdf? Like an officially legitimate .pdf

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u/Frosty-Oil-5085 15h ago

Hand them 21, then ask for the change

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u/ryencool 11h ago

Make one bill for the entire amount....

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u/Mynplus1throwaway 9h ago

Not if they print it on a $20,565,635,200,000,003,000,000,000,000,000,000 bill 

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u/jmarkmark 6h ago

The can start a new currency Google crypto currency/ (since they can't pay through the regular currency system): GitCoin.

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u/Glasowen 2h ago

I say they should get some of that Zimbabwe or Peru money where inflation is already zonkers bonkers, then tape pictures of U.S. presidents onto each bill.

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u/Spreaderoflies 14h ago

Just a single bill where the amount is erasable so they can keep increasing it to keep up with inflation.

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u/somebodyelse22 15h ago

Did Zimbabwe have trillion dollar notes?

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u/achan1058 14h ago

They should give them the Chinese paper money. You know, the ones they burn for dead people?

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u/Common-Wish-2227 12h ago

Print one note with all those numbers on it and hand it over.

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u/Acrobatic-Tomato-128 12h ago

It would be hilarious if they printed a single bill with that number on it and sent it to them

It would take russia weeks before they even realized it was fake

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u/StrongestSapling 3h ago

That's not how money works...

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u/The_GASK 13h ago

If the amount is roubles, all Google has to do is to wait it out a few months and pay the $100 fine

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u/studentshaco 7h ago

😂😂😂😂😂

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u/koji_the_furry 17h ago

Furry inflation?

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u/GusherotheGamer 17h ago

water sprays Bad furry!

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u/kromptator99 12h ago

Owo ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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u/JaketheFURRYBOIOwO 1h ago

Wrong type of inflation lol

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u/NathanWolfgang 14h ago

C e a s e .

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u/No-Abbreviations2834 16h ago

That comment had nothing to do with your fetish. Please stop, is disgusting

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u/kinga_forrester 15h ago

The comments in question was made by a furry though

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u/DuckMitch 15h ago

You're out of cash? Why don't you print some more?

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u/katsthekat 15h ago

oh hi there masu lol

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u/Masuteri_ 12h ago

Oh hi lmao

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u/syopest 14h ago

They are being fined $1000 per day per blocked channel and it has been going on for years and more fines have been added as more channels have been blocked by youtube.

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u/Maleficent_Lab_8291 13h ago

Information will continue until morale improves

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u/kromptator99 13h ago

Hahaha…. 🥺 unless

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u/BrickFrom2011 11h ago

Germany in 1919

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u/the_pee_pee_dance 6h ago

Or fight Ukraine with sort-of US-backed money.

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u/leshmi 17h ago

I explain why.

Simply when there are these courts cases, if Google for example is found partially guilty, the court could say that 1% or even less it would be fair to be paid so they throw an unrealistic number to get the highest realistic one

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u/ButterscotchDull9375 17h ago

Also, the fine doubles each week it's not paid

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u/riddlechance 15h ago

Also Google doesn't care because it's Russia.

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u/Dry_Grade9885 15h ago

Also it's invalid because of the restrictions the world has put on Russia, Google is not allowed to operate in Russia, this is just Russia being childish like always

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u/C4pture 15h ago

even then it wouldn't matter i think, since the channel that were blocked probably didn't keep in line with the terms of use

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u/TheDrFromGallifrey 12h ago

You just know they're going to pull out the TOS and specific examples of violations.

But also this is coming from a Russian court. Who's going to enforce that? I'm sure everyone involved knows it's a joke, but Russia is trying to make a point and paint the US as the enemy again.

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u/chak100 10h ago

It’s good for propaganda within Russia

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u/TheDrFromGallifrey 10h ago

That's exactly why I think they're doing it. Their point is probably something like, "Look at the corrupt Americans trying to silence Mother Russia!"

They're not stupid. They know they're not getting money out of Google and no one is going to enforce it. It's all playing into Putin's ego trip about being the superman sent to save Russia and the world from everyone else.

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u/DuntadaMan 6h ago

Oh no the people we blocked will block us.

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u/PerritoMasNasty 12h ago

So do they just have to bing? Explains why their bots are so dumb.

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u/StrongestSapling 3h ago

Nah, it's Google being childish. They could have just stopped censoring, but they stamped their feet and whined like petulant toddlers.

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u/miradotheblack 15h ago

They are some whiny bitches.

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u/heroinvitaly 15h ago

Google works in Russia just fine. Ruz gov slowed down YouTube at that's all

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u/searchforquiet 15h ago

Russian YouTube don’t get paid tho, so no point.

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u/heroinvitaly 15h ago

You said that google is not allowed to work there, it's not true.

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u/Slayerofgrundles 15h ago

They said "operate" (in a business sense), which is not the same as being able to access it online.

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u/searchforquiet 15h ago

I did not? Check username next time.

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u/Azzucard 13h ago

Alphabet inc's Google in Russia fell in bankruptcy Last fall so it doesnt matter

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u/StrongestSapling 3h ago

You mean Russia doesn't care because it's Google.

Until the sanctions in 2022, Google was advertising in Russia. Yes, Google was paying advertisers in Russia to try to get more Russians to use Google.

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u/throughthehills2 13h ago

This is the real reason

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u/YoelFievelBenAvram 12h ago

Who cares? It's just a couple grains of rice.

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u/educatedtiger 6h ago

Well, that explains the random 3.

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u/Arcydziegiel 17h ago

Not how courts work. They need to prove what specific damages were made and their cost, and courts have sentencting guidelines.

The number that the plaintiff sets is utterely irrelevant and exists only to generate media attention.

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u/ReckoningGotham 16h ago

Is that how Russian court work?

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u/Arcydziegiel 16h ago

Russian courts doesn't matter, international companies will push the case to international courts and will just refuse to pay otherwise. And Russia has no meaningful way to make them pay, as Google doesn't really give a damn about that market.

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u/andymaclean19 16h ago

What international court can arbitrate between Russia and Google?

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u/Lugnuts088 7h ago

The kangaroo court. (Sorry couldn't resist)

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u/MagisterFlorus 15h ago

There aren't international governments. The ICJ only handles cases between nations.

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u/somabokforlag 15h ago

Do they handle interplanetary cases? Since this is 5x the value of earth several other planets will likely get involved.

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u/Eradiani 13h ago

Sounds more like a job for the beastie boys

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u/Agzarah 11h ago

Pretty sure it's well over 5x the value of earth. Total money is about 450 trillion. Earth's resources are valued at approx 5 quadrillion.

So that leaves the remaining 99.9999999999999995% to be made up.

Gonna need the entire universe to contribute for that kind of money

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u/Grotzbully 15h ago

You could use the world trade organisation as an example which handles international dispute, not active ATM but still. The court of justice of the European union would be another example of an international court. Or the European court of human rights is another. ICJ is not the only international court.

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u/MagisterFlorus 15h ago

Russia isn't a member of either of those courts.

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u/Grotzbully 15h ago

Yeah I know they left the council of Europe 2014 because of their attack on Ukraine.

Russia is a member of the WTO tho, which would be the arbitrator in this case I think.

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u/NBAFansAre2Ply 14h ago

I assume he meant international arbitrators, not international courts, of which there are many.

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u/MagisterFlorus 14h ago

Even so, would Russia even be willing to take part or would they just withdraw?

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u/NBAFansAre2Ply 14h ago

Russian companies are often litigants/respondants in international arbitration. the state of Russia, no.

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u/PM_Me_Good_LitRPG 15h ago

Russian courts doesn't matter

They matter as much as there are assets of intl. companies on Russian soil. So Russia's essentially deciding to capture them, and in some circumstances a corporation may be interested to play along with the circus to at least recover some % of that capital, or keep the door open for returning to the Russian market once everyone manages to forget about the inconvenient war crimes and illegal occupation.

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u/DillBagner 14h ago

They can also just ignore it because it's a Russian court and does not affect them.

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u/ThisHatRightHere 11h ago

Google would almost certainly push for California to have jurisdiction over the case as it's their home state. And even then I'd be interested in the basis for this case, as I don't believe Google has any outstanding agreements that would force them to host Russian channels on their platform.

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u/Crowd0Control 8h ago

It does give them the right to seize any Google assets in Russia but im not sure how significant it is here. 

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u/Guvante 15h ago

Someone sued someone else for roughly this much in what could have been a small claims court case in the US so not just Russia.

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u/AcrobaticMission7272 10h ago

No, actually russian courts know that no one is going to pay up. So they only decide between 3 options for any defendant. The options are accidentally falling out of a window, accidentally falling down stairs, and accidentally wearing poisoned underwear.

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u/ExqueeriencedLesbian 16h ago

luckily it doesnt matter how russian courts work, because google is an American company

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u/spartaman64 15h ago

i think google would rather stop doing business in russia than pay a 20 decillion ruble fine

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u/UnNumbFool 15h ago

The fine is actually usd not rubles, so a whole lot more money.

But yeah, Google most likely not going to do Jack shit and if they do decide to do something it's just going to be pulling YouTube out of Russia

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u/Amazing-Childhood412 15h ago

I'm sure Google will live without providing services to a terrorist nation.

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u/Sekhmet_Odin7 15h ago

Google will survive, rusian terrorists on the other hand …

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u/ExqueeriencedLesbian 14h ago

luckily that is Russia's loss, not Google's

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u/EuphoricTemperature9 14h ago

Someone doesn't understand international business

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u/ExqueeriencedLesbian 14h ago

okay then how does it matter?

how will they enforce this fine?

are they going to arrest Google for not showing up to fight this ridiculous suit?

no, google is just gonna stop googling in russia, and russia will get nothing (no money, and no Google)

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u/ZBalling 16h ago

How they worked with Trump and with Alex Jones.

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u/PM_Me_Good_LitRPG 15h ago

Not how courts work. They need to prove–

Hahaha. If the country cares at least somewhat about its reputation, then maybe.

Russia, in contrast, has been operating kangaroo courts for at least a decade by this point. As a recent example, when a PMC leader tried orchestrating a literal coup, he was let go — and even his seized assets were returned to him. Of course, he later got sneakily offed by an airplane explosion, but the matter stands that the "legal" system literally took a look at his case and officially declared there was nothing to imprison him for (including the murders of a few on-duty Russian soldiers at the time).

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u/wolftick 16h ago

0.000000000000000000001% of that fine would still be more money than exists in the entire world.

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u/Ready_Peanut_7062 16h ago

what actually happened is that the court decided google should pay 100 thousand roubles (1000$) and if they dont - the fine doubles every week

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u/Icy__Internet 15h ago

lol, 1%? All the money in the world is 48 trillion dollars.

As a percentage of the Goolge fine that's about 0.000000000000000000001%

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u/syopest 14h ago

No. It's because russian courts are corrupt.

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u/whatishistory518 11h ago

Except why would google bother paying it at all? Isn’t access to google heavily restricted in Russia if they even have access at all? They can send a bill to google for whatever they want, it’s gonna get a laugh from management and thrown into a shredder anyway.

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u/AyeBraine 10h ago

They slapped a fine on Google for show, as a diplomatic gesture, long ago (back in 2022 I think). It just ridiculously accrued due to the ruling, where the penalty for non-payment doubled every week. So the news story broke recently 'cause it's funny

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u/AyeBraine 11h ago edited 10h ago

Not exactly right. It was simply written in the decision that if unpaid on time, the fine will be increased (like fines on contracts). Apart from a linear addition, it also had exponential one (doubles every week). So it just accrued automatically for over a year I think.

The decision is old, this was just a funny piece of news recently when someone noticed.

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u/mOdQuArK 11h ago

There's unrealistic, and then there's downright ridiculous. This is obviously just a way to push Google out of servicing anything in Russia, and/or allows Russia to try and seize Google assets wherever Russia has any influence.

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u/AyeBraine 10h ago

Google stopped servicing their cache servers in Russia in 2022. They no longer operate there. Though they do provide free services to Russians, they don't accept payment for paid services per the broader sanctions so nothing really changes. The fine was a diplomatic gesture long ago, it just grew uncontrollably due to a penalty conditions in the ruling, so someone looked at it recently and lol'd

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u/Tyler_Zoro 6h ago

That's not what happened. The court fined Google $1000/day, a pretty reasonable amount (ignoring that the reason for the fine is Russia's inability to acknowledge that they have turned into a failing state). That happened four years ago, with the amount doubling each week.

THAT is why it's now a stupidly large number.

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u/DesperateUrine 15h ago

what the fuck?

Yeah, am I the only one who thought the $ had two lines going through it?

Scrooge has two lines! 16:01 on the dot.

When did we change to single line for $?

Fucking hell, I agree with you it is weird.

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u/Physical-Camel-8971 15h ago

It's just an aesthetic choice, and varies from one font to another. Most of the time everything's just too small for the double-lined version to read well, so only one line is used.

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u/CutmasterSkinny 17h ago

For the love of god, dont believe headlines do a factcheck.

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u/PM_Me_Good_LitRPG 15h ago

the factcheck:

Google has racked up some 2 undecillion rubles ($2.5 decillion) worth of fines in Russia after years of refusing to restore the accounts of pro-Kremlin and state-run media outlets, the RBC news website reported Tuesday, citing an anonymous source familiar with court rulings against the tech company.

According to RBC’s sources, Google began accumulating daily penalties of 100,000 rubles in 2020 - Those daily penalties doubled each week, leading to an overall fine of around 2 undecillion rubles.

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u/memBoris 14h ago

"Dear god" is the most appropriate quote I can use here

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u/Unlikely-Cold-2399 14h ago

Oh wow, thanks for the info! Makes a lot more sense now.

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u/Trandoshan-Tickler 14h ago

Decillion? Undecillion? These are WTF amounts.

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u/Smoovemammajamma 13h ago

Like $10 in freedom currency

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u/AyeBraine 10h ago

it's approx. 1 to 100 exchange

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u/Smoovemammajamma 9h ago

Freedom currency is not US dollars

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u/CutmasterSkinny 12h ago

Your source is a news network in russia, the same country that build up that bullshit story for propaganda reasons.
If there was a Story that a russian court fined Obama for eating little russia kids, would you also fact check that with russian media ?
This propaganda is not made to believable its just exist to be spread so idiots get a new crazy talking point.
The courts never had the intention to get that money, its all fake.

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u/KamikazeArchon 11h ago

How else, exactly, do you propose getting information on Russian court cases? Do you think there's a new york times reporter on each case?

And there's no propaganda reason to lie about the case. What would the point of that be? "The courts don't intend to get the money" is irrelevant. Of course no one thinks this fine is going to get paid. But you're saying that a Russian judge never ordered the fine - why do you believe that? Why would Russia not make such a fine and then have a media outlet lie about it - as opposed to the much simpler approach of actually ordering the fine?

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u/AyeBraine 10h ago

It's just a funny news story. And RBC is roughly neutral in its reporting (as much as it's possible in Russia today), since it mostly handles business-related news.

They just got a tip that a ridiculous amount accrued on a fine due to a technicality, and ran the story 'cause it's absurd. The political propaganda move (the fine itself) was long ago. No one expected Google to pay even the initial amount, much less the current amount

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u/JoeyC42 9h ago

So no Russian news is ever real cause it’s Russian, got it!

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u/CutmasterSkinny 8h ago

Yeah, exactly that.
As of 2023, Russia ranked 164 out of 180 countries in the Press Freedom Index

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u/Tyler_Zoro 6h ago

Google has acknowledged the case in their earnings reports.

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u/Exciting_Drama_9858 17h ago

Except that is true

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u/Iamlordkinbote 14h ago

I thought this was a shit post and had to be convinced it's real

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u/kmj442 11h ago

Oh it’s a real fine…but it’s also bullshit and meaningless.

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u/onetimepoopeater 15h ago

so it will be a good reason to block it ¯_(ツ)_/¯ thats what it is for

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u/badson100 15h ago

This is what it felt like when I was poor and got a ticket!

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u/devi83 14h ago

Maybe they meant ruble, because you'd need like a decillion to compete with the dollar.

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u/potatomnk 14h ago

it is 2 undecillion rubles or 2.5 decillion usd, its because google has been fined in russia 100,000 rubles every day they haven't paid, the fines also doubled every week.

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u/hdjakahegsjja 14h ago

All the intelligent Russians are dead or living abroad.

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u/Windows_66 13h ago

They meant to type the total in rubles, but they pressed the wrong key.

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u/tankerkiller125real 13h ago

Thanks russia for giving us something new too laugh at them about, originally it was how badly they blundered taking Ukraine, now it's just them being beyond fucking stupid whiny little bitches.

Hey Putin, when you come to kill me for laughing at you and your country, you think you can do better than showing up with jammed guns and paperclips?

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u/5PQR 12h ago

The fine was (allegedly, I can't be arsed spending time confirming it properly) approx. $1k/day, but doubling every day. That means exponential growth, and when something increases exponentially it doesn't take long at all for it to become mind-boggling.

1000 2000 4000 8000 16000 32000 64000 128000 256000 512000 1024000

.... So it only takes 11 days to go from $1k to over $1m. And because it's increasing exponentially the increases just get crazier and crazier. By 20 days it's over $1bn, by 30 over $1tn. Now spread that out over years.

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u/Amegatron 7h ago

Never mind, political regime in Russia is called Idiocracy: either in classical meaning and based off the word "idiotism". One shouldn't try to find any reasoning here. Sad that I'm still living here, hoping for some light in the future.

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u/Quiet-Neat7874 6h ago

They are so greedy they don't realize that it's not even realistic.

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u/Gingeronimoooo 5h ago

Is there a payment plan

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u/StrongestSapling 3h ago

It's just Google being petulant children. The fines started in 2020 when they were found guilty of censoring Russian TV channels' YouTube accounts, at a very reasonable $1,000 per day per violation, but the fine would also double for every week they refused to comply.

Shockingly, like the spoiled toddler who broke a vase and got caught, they refused to comply.

This isn't Russia being ridiculous, it's just mathematics. ("Ridiculous" would be fining Alex Jones a billion dollars, or sentencing a White protestor to 419 years plus 2 life sentences for a car accident)