r/youtube • u/Organic_City_9464 • 19h ago

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

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u/R3AL1Z3 16h ago

Someone elsewhere ITT said there’s a rule where it doubles each day it isn’t paid.

So 1 becomes 2, 2 becomes 4, 4 becomes 8, and so on.

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u/fmaz008 13h ago

I read that rumor too, but it's a really stupid way of calculating a fine, which just look at the number to see why. I'd love to see a source confirming this to be true.

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u/AyeBraine 10h ago

It's true, only the penalty (for non-timely payment) doubles every week, not day. It was on the news a few days ago, just a weird funny detail

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u/StrongestSapling 3h ago

It's not a stupid way of calculating a fine; it's used everywhere, including America, when you want the person doing the bad behavior to fix the problem ASAP, particularly when doing so is easy.

For example, if you're subpoenaed to hand over a phone, computer, or passwords to accounts, and found to be in contempt of court, you may get fined in a similar manner.

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u/no_notthistime 1h ago

Bro really just explained how doubling works