A Russian court has ruled that Google owes Russian media stations around $20 decillion in fines for blocking their content, and the fines could get bigger.

To put that into perspective, the World Bank estimates global GDP as around $100 trillion, which is peanuts compared to the prospective fine. Google would therefore have to find more money than exists on Earth to pay Moscow - but on Tuesday fell a little short of that mark when it posted $88 billion quarterly revenue.

The bizarre amount has been calculated after a four-year court case that started after YouTube banned the ultra-nationalist Russian channel Tsargrad in 2020 in response to the US sanctions imposed against its owner.

The court imposed a fine of 100 thousand rubles ($1,025) per day, with the total fine doubling every week. Owing to compound interest, Google is now on the hook for an insane amount of money, or what the judge on Monday called “a case in which there are many, many zeros.”

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[–] 123 points 2 years ago (4 children)

i mean this is like textbook trolling but redditors will get very mad and nude about it

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  • [–] 86 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    i mean this is like textbook trolling but redditors will get very mad and nude about it

    I am mad and nude right now

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  • [–] 52 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Get your clothes back on now or I'm calling the volcel police!

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  • [–] [B] 30 points 2 years ago

    The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.

    نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.

    volcel-police

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Yeah seen a bunch of them go "heh yeah right like that's a rational number silly russians! And good luck collecting it!" smuglord

    It's pretty obviously mocking. There wouldn't be any number google would find acceptable, so might as well ahve fun with it

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  • [–] 85 points 2 years ago

    At this point, he should've fined them a googol dollars. che-laugh

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  • [–] 76 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  • [–] 74 points 2 years ago

    The court imposed a fine of 100 thousand rubles ($1,025) per day, with the total fine doubling every week.

    cool

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  • [–] 58 points 2 years ago

    Fining Google one grain of rice the first day, two the second day, four the third day, and doubling every day afterwards

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  • [–] 55 points 2 years ago

    I mean, all ultra nationalist websites should be de-indexed everywhere but that's no reason to stand in the way of this tremendous and beautiful fine.

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  • [–] 52 points 2 years ago
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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago

    rizz give us a zillion dollars

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago

    This is how you know the soviets had a comically large spoon...modern Russia has comically large interest rates. How do you think they plan on collecting all that Google money? Scooping it up with the spoon and catapulting it by using a comically large pencil under the spoon before every Russian jumps on the spoon.

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago

    You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago
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    Google deserves it and more LMAO... whatever the reasoning, based. I hope someday every single country the west has smeared (ie. all of them) joins in on the legal shitposting.

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    should've went for a gogol

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago

    Slap on the wrist smdh hedd

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    From what I’ve been able to find, it sounds like Article 13.41 is designed to penalize refusal to remove objectionable content. Here, it’s apparently being applied to Google’s refusal to restore specific content? Seems like a stretch to me, but it does make for a funny headline

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    That's alpha

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I wanna see ol' Google wiggle their way out of this one... / s

    The bizarre amount has been calculated after a four-year court case that started after YouTube banned the ultra-nationalist Russian channel Tsargrad in 2020 in response to the US sanctions imposed against its owner.

    Ultranationalist, more like Ultrabatshit

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    Is that real though or is just western media again pulling the Occupied Korean standards of journalism?

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    lol. lmao even

    Death to America

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    Should've made it 1 Googol

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    double it and give it to the next person

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Respect the rules based order shrug-outta-hecks

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Wasn't it an undecillion actually? (20 × 10 ^ 36)

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    presumably they started with a base fine of $20 and simply multiplied it by 1000 for each of their time zones

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    good start to my day

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