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Russia fined Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 - that’s 2.5 trillion trillion trillion dollars after the US tech giant took action against Putin's propaganda.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

Well if they fined Google in rubles that’s basically pocket change.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

The two numbers in the text aren't equal. The first is 20 billion trillion trillion, and the second is 125 times larger.

Edit: I'm bad at counting zeros, too. The first number is correct (20 decillion), and the second is wrong (2.5 undecillion)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

More than the world's GDP? Technically true, but a gross understatement. If we actually had that money it cash, it would create a mass larger than our sun and fucking annihilate the solar system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 minutes ago

World GDP is only about $100 trillion. Even if you squared the world GDP it would still be 2 million times smaller than this fine!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Ah not if we make a new note.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago

Google should mail them a giant check

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Google’s response

(Jump to 2:43 if that didn’t link right)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Hey Google, now might be a good time to stop cowering to tinpot dictators. Google has bent over backwards to appease these people and this is what Google gets in return.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

IIRC, the fine started at something like $1000 and doubled weekly. The fact that it's ballooned to $20 decillion (or whatever) shows that they did stop appeasing them, because if Google had capitulated the balance would've quit growing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Oh no, what ever will they do without the world's largest spy agency.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Sure would be a shame if all Google services stopped working in Russia and russosympathetic nations, and people's accounts that got accessed from primarily Russian locations get banned.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Does it really help to isolate them from the rest of the world even more? It's kind of what those dictators are trying to do in the first place.

[–] Ismay 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Does it helps helping them censure the web ? It's kinda what those dictators are trying to do in the first place.

Like seriously, there is no winning with those kind of people. They only way to win the game is to not play.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

I mean, they are trying and failing to censure the web to their benefit. Hence the "fines". Hypothetically, due to fines those services will be blocked anyway, that's mostly the point.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Is that not 20 decillion? Why say ‘trillion x3?’

Edit: sorry, it says so in the article.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Even weirder, the article says this:

To put that into perspective, global GDP reaches an estimated $110 thousand billion (12-digit figure), according to the IMF.

Decillion might not be a word people know, but surely trillion is?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago

So Russia is saying that companies are obliged to carry content they disagree with?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I mean ... I have been wanting to see megacorps hit with fines that are more than slap on the wrist / cost of doing business level of expense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Yep, I said the same thing in the previous thread on this topic.

The concept of geometrically increasing fines to coerce compliance (and quickly!) is a good one, and western governments need to find the balls to start using that tactic for good reasons (e.g. anti-trust, consumer protection, etc.).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

enforcementtracker.com

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

lmao, nice one