News Russian court fines Google 2 undecillion roubles for blocking 17 state TV channels

[Admin]

RBC reports (Russian language) that the court fined Google "2 undecillion roubles" for blocking access to 17 Russian TV channels.

Russian court fines Google 2 undecillion roubles for blocking 17 state TV channels : Read more

 

[King_V]

Reminds me of this bit:

(Raucous laughter)
"Dr. Evil, this is 1969. That amount of money doesn't even exist!"

 

[hotaru251]

ok not being political but how the frick does russia think fines work?

You dont sue for more $ than exists as a whole for a few yrs of having your youtube channels blocked....

at msot you assume the value you'd make over that time and maybe double/triple the lost value assumed.

This type of blatant robbery fine would never get paid and anyone would know that...Google would just stop doing naything w/ russia and ignore it. (which does nothing really to benefit russia so why make such a stupid fine if you wanted anything out of it?)

Pretty sure if you took every bit of money from the time currency was a concept you'd not have that much.

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

ok not being political but how the frick does russia think fines work?

You dont sue for more $ than exists as a whole for a few yrs of having your youtube channels blocked....

at msot you assume the value you'd make over that time and maybe double/triple the lost value assumed.

This type of blatant robbery fine would never get paid and anyone would know that...Google would just stop doing naything w/ russia and ignore it. (which does nothing really to benefit russia so why make such a stupid fine if you wanted anything out of it?)

It's a stupid headline grabbing move I guess. What's the value of the entire world's production? A quick search suggests around $100 trillion. So, this "fine" is basically so much that it's not even meaningful. It's almost Avogadro's number times more than the world's yearly GDP!

 

[x3dguy]

🤡 state strikes again

 

[DougMcC]

I assume the amount is intended to allow Russia to seize any and all of Google's assets and cash currently in Russia as Google tries to flee.

 

[NinoPino]

Maybe there is something wrong in translation because so much money seems a joke rather than a serious fine.

 

[NinoPino]

Reading the original article, it seems this is only a rumor, nothing official.
This seems highly unreliable.

 

[jonaswox]

Reminds me of this bit:

(Raucous laughter)
"Dr. Evil, this is 1969. That amount of money doesn't even exist!"

Is it not the other way around ? De Evil asking for 1 million dollar after being frozen for 30 years. Everybody laughs because 1 million is nothing to demand for a supervillain threatening to extinguish the world ,😆

 

[KyaraM]

2 what now? Is that supposed to be a number? lmao

 

[BillyBuerger]

At this point, why didn't they just fine Google a googol?

 

[edzieba]

Russian courts attempting a buffer overflow attack on... [checks notes]... the Russian court recordkeeping system. They're about 170x away from overflowing a 128-bit value. and ~85x away from overflowing a signed 128-bit value.