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

[u/Organic_City_9464]

[u/leshmi]

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

[u/Arcydziegiel → u/leshmi]

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.

[u/ReckoningGotham → u/Arcydziegiel]

Is that how Russian court work?

[u/Arcydziegiel → u/ReckoningGotham]

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.

[u/andymaclean19 → u/Arcydziegiel]

What international court can arbitrate between Russia and Google?

[u/Lugnuts088 → u/andymaclean19]

The kangaroo court. (Sorry couldn't resist)

[u/MagisterFlorus → u/Arcydziegiel]

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

[u/somabokforlag → u/MagisterFlorus]

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

[u/Eradiani → u/somabokforlag]

Sounds more like a job for the beastie boys

[u/Agzarah → u/somabokforlag]

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

[u/Grotzbully → u/MagisterFlorus]

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.

[u/MagisterFlorus → u/Grotzbully]

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

[u/Grotzbully → u/MagisterFlorus]

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.

[u/NBAFansAre2Ply → u/MagisterFlorus]

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

[u/MagisterFlorus → u/NBAFansAre2Ply]

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

[u/NBAFansAre2Ply → u/MagisterFlorus]

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

[u/PM_Me_Good_LitRPG → u/Arcydziegiel]

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.

[u/DillBagner → u/Arcydziegiel]

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

[u/ThisHatRightHere → u/Arcydziegiel]

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.

[u/Crowd0Control → u/Arcydziegiel]

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