Russia – Decoding Intertnet https://decodinginternet.com Your Tech Guide Sun, 03 Nov 2024 03:27:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Fine For Google https://decodinginternet.com/20000000000000000000000000000000000-fine-for-google/ https://decodinginternet.com/20000000000000000000000000000000000-fine-for-google/#respond Sun, 03 Nov 2024 03:27:41 +0000 https://decodinginternet.com/?p=3655 $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000  is the amount that Google need to pay to Russia. Yes, You heard it right as Russia fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. The fine is even impossible to pronounce as the fine amounts is around $20 billion trillion trillion. What funny is that the Google parent Alphabet, meanwhile, has a market value of around $2 trillion. Months after the invasion of Ukraine, Google’s Russia subsidiary filed for bankruptcy and paused most of its commercial operations after the government seized control of its bank accounts.

Why is Google being fined in Russia?

It sounds funny but Google is being fined for blocking 17 Russian media channels on YouTube including RT and Sputnik. and the Russian court had earlier ordered Google to restore the YouTube channels or else face mounting charges, with penalties doubling every week.

Fine amount is greater than the world’s total GDP, which is estimated by the International Monetary Fund to be $110 trillion.

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