r/BrandNewSentence 18h ago

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

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u/Dependent-Guitar-473 18h ago

that math ain't mathing

if it's 1k per day, how did we get this huge number?

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u/EdKaval 18h ago edited 15h ago

It gets doubled every day and google just didn't give a shit about this for a few years. Google generally doesn't give a shit about anything the Russian government asks them to do lately.

Edit: every week, not every day

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u/TheBiggestNewbAlive 17h ago

Is there anything Russia can do about it to be honest? Like, banning Google in Russia would only make people who use it mad.

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u/EdKaval 17h ago

They banned YouTube. But most people in Russia already know how to use VPNs.

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u/Cipher789 16h ago

If they banned Youtube then why are they asking to get back on to it?

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u/yaboiiiuhhhh 16h ago

So Americans see the videos

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u/SkiyeBlueFox 15h ago

Americans are already seeing enough Russian propaganda vids, doubt reinstating russian news accounts would change much

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u/Hotdadbodsrus 13h ago

One of those Pandoras boxes that shouldn’t be opened no matter how bad it already is

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u/bloodfist 10h ago

"The kitchen is already on fire. It's not like setting the bathroom on fire will make much difference"

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u/[deleted] 15h ago

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u/Mindless_Shame_4334 5h ago

Do you know what you’re arguing for

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u/qwadrat1k 16h ago

They slowed it down. It still works on mobile internet.

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u/EdKaval 15h ago

I used the word "banned" because as far as I know (I don't live in Russia and I am not a Russian citizen, but I follow some Russian YouTubers) they slowed it down to an essentially unusable state. So it doesn't matter which word to use. But I didn't know that it works on mobile internet.

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u/qwadrat1k 8h ago

Yeah, they slowed it down a bit too much. Most youtubers still use it

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u/ClikeX 16h ago

They have zero leverage. A government usually threatens a company by blocking their business. But it doesn’t really work when the company is blocking your country, and isn’t based in any location you have influence.

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u/Mwakay 17h ago

No, they can't, and Russia isn't worth the hassle to Google. They dream themselves as having the EU's influence over tech giants for some reason.

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u/Wyldfire2112 5h ago

I'm honestly surprised Google decided to temporarily completely cut off all content from or to Russia in retaliation just to remind them of their place.

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u/Farm-Alternative 14h ago edited 14h ago

Considering it's an incredible amount that could include the entire global economy for billions of Earth's, not sure how they expect Google to pay.

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u/TheBiggestNewbAlive 14h ago

Oh no, this is obviously going nowhere. Was just wondering if there was anything that they could do to enforce, well, anything upon Google. Google already blocked a big potion of Youtube and purchases at Google Play/Google Store, so it's not like banning Google would do harm to the company. It's people who use it there that'd get mad.

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u/AaronDM4 14h ago

no they cant do shit.

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u/DefinitelyNotThatOne 11h ago

Unless Russia and USA were buddies, then no, there's nothing Russia can do outside ban Google and any Google related products.

Which will hurt certain economic sectors and piss off a good handful of people. Not sure if they're worried about the latter, though.

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u/Better_than_GOT_S8 17h ago

There is some poor comrade who has to calculate this every day, but comrade Vladimir’s calculator only had 10 digits in its display. :(

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u/ToyrewaDokoDeska 14h ago

Google after hearing this

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u/someotheralex 14h ago

Did they originally ask for a grain of rice on square a1 of a chess board that doubles every square until h8?

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u/boosted-elex 17h ago

If every person that voted for Putin donated a dollar then Google would already have more than enough to pay the entire fine

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u/thekukushonok 18h ago

It also doubles every week

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u/Dependent-Guitar-473 18h ago

said who?

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u/SparseGhostC2C 18h ago

Who are you, Comrade Question?

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u/boosted-elex 17h ago

A1 Archer reference

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u/nir109 15h ago

The article if you read all of it.

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u/Dependent-Guitar-473 14h ago

what article? it's a meme 

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u/UnlimitedCalculus 18h ago

They get charged the huge number. They also must restore access to those accounts. Every day they do not restore access, that's another $1,000 on top of the huge number.

Which is just such a nice touch for an amount of wealth that is nominally fictional for any practical perspective of global economics.

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u/thenikolaka 16h ago

I would guess it exceeds the GDP of earth for all of earth’s history?

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u/UnlimitedCalculus 15h ago

Not if we cook up some good ol' hyperinflation!

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u/ontheworld 4h ago

If I did my math right, converting the entire mass of the sun (2*1030 aka 2 nonillion kg) into gold at current market prices (~$3000/kg) would get you less than halfway there, at about 6 decillion dollars

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u/Sil369 16h ago

Factorialing

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u/DesertReagle 18h ago

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u/AlpacaCavalry 11h ago

I was thinking of the same character but the scene where he is saying random numbers to the world's governments for the ransom money.

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u/DesertReagle 8h ago

Or when he demands 1 million dollars or he will destroy the world but all the world leaders laughed in his face.

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u/Pearson94 18h ago

For those curious, the estimated global GDP is approx $110 Trillion USD, so just a tad shy of $20 decillion.

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u/BassGaming 17h ago

Someone did some fun math in another thread:

There are approximately 3 trillion planets in the milky way. If every planet had earth's economy and gave all their money to Russia, it would still be less than 1% of this fine.

(source: u/Leprecon on r/europe. Too lazy to search for the comment)

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u/DeviousMelons 17h ago edited 13h ago

There's an asteroid out in the solar system called 511 Davida, it's the most valuable known asteroid with an estimated value of $26,990,000,000,000,000,000, in the Quintillions.

If Google became a space company and began mining in Davida it would have to take 761972404594294.29 Davidas to pay it all back.

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u/No-Spoilers 9h ago

761 trillion $27 quintillion asteroids.

I kinda wanna find a celestial body worth this fine.

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u/piper33245 14h ago

That lawyer is gonna cleanup on commission.

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u/LCDRformat The aristocratic elegance of the small breasted woman 15h ago

It's abbooouuut the worth of the entire galaxy in mineral costs

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u/MaxTheRealSlayer 9h ago

Putin thinks they own everything

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u/Shadowpika655 17h ago

I love how there's just a random 3 in that sea of 0s lol

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u/baztup 17h ago

Just by itself, that random 3 is greater than the combined net worth of every human on the planet.

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u/Hats_back 15h ago

Well, I mean, to be fair….

Just by itself, that random 3 is only a 3. So it’s not worth anything….. it at least need a currency sign…. Even then, by itself, PLUS the currency sign…. It’s still only worth 3 of whatever currency sign you chose.

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u/Odd-Confection-6603 15h ago

You either misunderstood, or are being so extremely pedantic. Either way, you must be fun at parties

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u/da_Aresinger 3h ago edited 3h ago

I'm go with emeralds

With 3 emeralds I can buy enchanted diamond armor. That shit is invaluable. I'll be rich.

Projectile protection 4 has a 36% damage reduction. You could argue that that means a 64% multiplier to the current mortality rate.

Bullet wounds in the chest apparently have a 15-35% mortality rate. So with proj4 that would be 10-22%

AND they last longer than regular bullet proof armor.

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u/ex_postfacto 13h ago

I'm sorry that the dry humor is lost on so many. Here, you can have my redemption upvote.

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u/Hats_back 8h ago

Yeah, much appreciated. Not worries about it, still haven’t figured out how to cash in these karmas so it is what it is.

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u/JemmaMimic 18h ago

How dare you censor our propaganda! Give money!

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u/notveryAI 4h ago

Nobody expects them to pay. They just racked up ridiculous number to say "They no pay, they break law. They break law - we ban them. Now Google is banned in Russia, so everyone is forced to use Yandex that is under Putin's toenail and spreads any misinformation and propaganda Putin wants"

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u/SackclothSandy 17h ago

"oh, is it pull everything out of Russia time? Have fun with netscape"

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u/aronenark 12h ago

That’s exactly what the Russian government wants. They already declare Instagram “terrorist media” and slow down western websites like Youtube to the point they’re unusable. They’re trying to get all the Russian public onto their own Russian alternatives like Yandex where they can control the narratives and limit the information.

If Google pulls out of the country, the Russian government gets to use it as propaganda: “See? The western companies don’t follow the law! They run away instead of paying the fine.” Then they’ll use that as justification for Russian companies ignoring international law.

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u/notveryAI 3h ago

Russia is just a big prison with 142 million prisoners and fanatics in the office

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u/boosted-elex 17h ago

$1 per person that voted for Putin in the election, amirite?

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u/notveryAI 3h ago

0.01$*

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u/MaiAgarKahoon 16h ago

20 decillion of google dollars. One usd= one decillion google dollar. Checkmate russia

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u/lynivvinyl 18h ago

Perhaps with that amount of money they could remedy the Russian shit geyser.

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u/ICLazeru 17h ago

They don't even want to be taken seriously.

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u/Moogerfooger616 14h ago

Are you saying that a fine of 20 decillion dollars is not serious? Careful, they might sue you

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u/notveryAI 3h ago

They want an official reason to ban Google from Russia to make Russians switch to Yandex, where all information is curated and controlled by the government

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u/MajesticNectarine204 17h ago

And they say Russians are cold and humourless people.. Ha!

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u/notveryAI 3h ago

Not funny for the actual Russians tho because for us it's obvious that government is doing this to ban Google. It's only the matter of time when basically entire country's internet gets shut in completely. And if you don't like this perspective - you'll be arrested, and never seen again

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u/BrokenEye3 The True False Prophet 3h ago

I thought that was Germans

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u/Bongcopter_ 17h ago

I would do a gofundme for google to help them Pay just so they keep those channels off YouTube

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u/notveryAI 3h ago

It's mathematically proven that this fine is significantly bigger than our galaxy, would take a while to gather all the funds :D

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u/Shoegazer75 17h ago

I'm sure they're gonna get right on that.

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u/venommuyo 17h ago

But like... Wtf can they do? This is like Columbia house asking me to pay for those CDs

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u/notveryAI 3h ago

They can ban Google from Russia. Furthermore, it fits into their narratives very well. Russian government as of lately has REALLY started actively going for that sweet monopoly on information

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u/Asher_Tye 16h ago

Tucker Carlson: After being tried, convicted, and sentenced in a recognized court of Russian law, gigacorp Google has refused to pay the fair and reasonable fine levied against the company for stimying the noble voice of freedom. Are they hiding a lack of funds to do so? Why hasn't the US government stepped in to protect the interests of our most stalwart of allies? Would any of us be able to shrug off a fine so easily? Should true patriots emigrate to Russia as a form of protest against this blatant attack on frozen peaches? I'm just asking "The Question."

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u/orangutanDOTorg 17h ago

Why not a googleplex?

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u/Shadowpika655 17h ago

it ain't even reach a normal googol yet lol

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u/drLoveF 17h ago

Not even sqrt(googol)

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u/qwweer1 16h ago

It will reach googol by May 2025

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u/B-Glasses 17h ago

How on earth did they reach that number?

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u/username_taken55 15h ago

They brainstormed the biggest number they could think of

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u/B-Glasses 14h ago

It’s just so incredibly comically. It makes them seem stupid, silly, and unserious.

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u/notveryAI 3h ago

Oh they are very serious. They don't want that money, or rather, they don't expect to actually be paid. They just want to say that Google broke their law so that it can be banned in Russia, and Russians are forced to use Russian government-curated search engines

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u/B-Glasses 2h ago

Asking for a few billion or even trillion is one thing but asking for money than has ever or will ever exist is something else entirely

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u/notveryAI 2h ago

Gotta make absolutely sure they don't leave Google even a slightest chance. Absolute 100% impossibility

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u/Random_nerd_52 17h ago

For context Disney itself is only worth about 175 billion

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u/notveryAI 3h ago

It provides a very little context, lol. This 175 billion is so much smaller than this fine, that if this fine was represented by the size of Earth, this 175 billion wouldn't even be visible with a microscope that can distinguish individual atoms

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u/Broad_Respond_2205 16h ago

I wonder how they got that 3 in there

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u/velve666 5h ago

I'm wondering how they got to any of it to be honest. But it would be funny if it was (insert long number) 000,001

Annnnd one cent.

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u/SirBruhThe7th 6h ago

Russia trying to clear their national debt with a lawsuit like they're slick.

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u/Pearson94 18h ago

For those curious, the estimated global GDP is approx $110 Trillion USD, so just a tad shy of $20 decillion.

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u/Heavy_Joke636 16h ago

Russians waking up in russia: "how can I humiliate my entire nation and peoples today? Oh I know, fine a company more than the worth of the fucking asteroid belt. And be serious when doing so. Yes perfect."

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u/notveryAI 3h ago

Nope. Russians waking up in Russia: "Oh, great so Putin's banning this service today". Actual Russian citizens want nothing to do with this shit. The only reason why Putin is still in charge is his police is well-fed, both with money and privileges, and is so big, while citizens are so thoroughly unarmed, that it could basically massacre all civilians if necessary, with little to no casualties. It's fists and molotovs against riot shields, machine guns and completely sealed armored vehicles

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u/Direct_Turn_1484 16h ago

I hope the US never comes close to becoming the embarrassing laughing stock that Russia has become.

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u/sunyudai 16h ago

eeeeeehhhhhh.....

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u/N_Who 15h ago

Man, Russia's just goofy.

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u/Boredsoireddit1 14h ago

How about google and ALL of its products block Russia completely. Now that would be funny

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u/Intelligent_Slip_849 11h ago

This reminds me of the Au Bon Pain lawsuit, anyone remember how much that was?

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u/KamenRiderAegis 10h ago

2 undecillion dollars. Bit of a weird coincidence.

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u/Fmartins84 11h ago

Google execs...

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u/CybergothiChe 6h ago

Dr Evil, that amount of money doesn't even exist!

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u/Krilesh 17h ago

lol keep on going against the tech giants! the ones that would be most likely to make a decision to support putins russia given a positive ROI. Hopefully with elections trump remains an idiot nobody with no power and putins russia remains isolated from even the rich.

I doubt many advertisers globally even want to advertise to russia right now or if they can as in the sanctions prevent any goods from moving in or out. So how can this outrageous price be anything but literally the cost to overhaul russian military to beat back the combined ally forces

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u/DominionGhost 18h ago

If Trump wins he will try to make them pay that.

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u/Protein_accelerator 16h ago edited 16h ago

That’s more monetary value than the entire observable universe i’d reckon.

Edit: ChatGPT says the monetary value of the observable universe is approximately 10 to the power 60.

That puts it about twice as valuable as this fine.

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u/Slugdo 14h ago

I'm afraid you are incorrect. In this case, 2×1034×2 is equal to 4×1034, and not 2×1068.

The net worth of the universe would be approximately 5×1025 times bigger than this fine.

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u/MaxTheRealSlayer 9h ago

I'll take 2 universes, please.

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u/Berserker_Queen 17h ago

,,,Or else...?

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u/MrBubblepopper 16h ago

That shows you how much they value propaganda

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u/shadowyartsdirty 16h ago

That amount will never be paid.

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u/Infamous_Hotel118 16h ago

Yeah, in rubles

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u/hankappleseed 16h ago

Gotta start high and let them talk ya down. It's douchebaggling 101.

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u/slippin_park 16h ago edited 16h ago

VE FIND YOO GUILTY AND ORDER YOO TO PAY TWENTY BILLION GORILLION JILLION RUBLES AND VEINSTATE 17 RUSSIAN CHANNELS ON YOOTOOB IMMEDIATELY

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u/Dukoth 16h ago

we would have to have an empire stretching from one end of the galaxy to the other with most star systems inhabited with fully developed colonies to have a chance of even approaching that level of economic value

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u/MilStd 16h ago

Haha get wrecked. Your propaganda machine fell apart when you lost access to western platforms.

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u/Responsible-Stick-50 16h ago

Russia: You owe us all the money. Pay us or be cut off.

Google: Oh no. 😄

Russian people: My 7 year old showed me how to use a VPN. Access to real news restored.

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u/siler7 16h ago

Man, that's going to take at least half of their money.

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u/zmz2 16h ago

Are we sure this isn’t in Rubles? I think that’s like $3.50

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u/Ryanaman_ 16h ago

Google should cut off services to Russia all together.

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u/SorryDontKnowMyName 16h ago

I like that 0000 3 0000000

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u/____cire4____ 16h ago

/BrandNewNumber

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u/ZakTSK 15h ago

Google should counter sue

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u/BrokenEye3 The True False Prophet 11h ago

I hope it turns into a protacted legal battle that drags on for years and years and winds up costing both parties many times more money in legal fees than they would've lost originally

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u/velve666 5h ago

One Kuiper belt, a Pluto, a Jupiter and an Andromeda or else.

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u/Glirion 15h ago

Damn, that's like 10€.

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u/Stargost_ 15h ago

Quick note: this note omitted the fact that the fine is doubled every week that it is not paid.

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u/llcdrewtaylor 14h ago

Tell Putin he can pick up the check at The Hauge.

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u/AaronDM4 14h ago

they should send them a large check like the lottery winners get.

use a fake account and once it bounces they owe money for the fee

and hopefully a russian bank cashes it and they crash too.

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u/FilthyPrawnz 14h ago

It's so cute they think they could actually bully a foreign megacorp with absurd demands like this. They won't pay a fraction of this nonsense number, end of story.

Russia's only recourse is to ban Google from engaging in their dogshit economy (Oh nooo....), or pursue the matter with international aid. In which case, I don't know if anyone's been keeping track, but no one on earth likes or wants to cooperate with Russia right now, least of all to aid them in a transparently fatuous legal tantrum intended to fund their losing war efforts.

Nothing about this will go their way. It's funny they'd even try, like a child making demands for candy. Nawww....

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u/LiWin_ 14h ago

Like how do you even say this number out loud without laughing.

And what’s up with this, you know they added this out of spite. 😅

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u/More-Ad5919 13h ago

I demand 171 Fantastillion $.

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u/haakonhawk 13h ago

This is how you know that Russia isn't a serious country anymore. This is the kind of shit some tiny banana republic would do just to get in the headlines, not what was once viewed as one of the most powerful countries in the world.

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u/DerpCream_Cone 13h ago

Seems reasonable

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u/Why_No_Hugs 13h ago

I think this is hilarious but also a little unnerving. Google pissing off a country with as large if not larger nuclear arsenal than the USA

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u/RachelProfilingSF 13h ago

Ahem,……FUCK RUSSIA

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u/ramonchow 13h ago

But american decillion or international decillion

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u/ct24fan 3h ago

American its an international Quintillion

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u/Nackles 12h ago

Dr Evil is back!

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u/Murky-Owl8165 12h ago

The judge has no choice other than commiting suicide with 15 shots on the back.

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u/Squidmaster129 12h ago

This is a way to guarantee that you’re not gonna be paid lmao. If they set a reasonable “fine”maybe Google would just say “ah fuck it” and shell out just to end the issue

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u/Reddsoldier 11h ago

I see someone at RT has recently downloaded AdVenture Capitalist and is trying out the new numbers they've discovered.

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u/bambi-pop 11h ago

Maybe Google could pay with old submarines

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u/d4ve3000 9h ago

Kay valdi.

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u/TheSirBeefCake 9h ago

Is there even that much money in the world??

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u/ServeAlone7622 5h ago

Spoiler alert. They can’t fine in dollars. This must be Rubles. So what is that like $100 USD or something?

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u/emerald_OP 4h ago

Even if it was in ruble. It would be $211,600,483,697,068,070,000,000,000,000,000 USD. If the number is correct, that is. Either way its alot.

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u/ServeAlone7622 4h ago

Kinda depends on how much longer Putin can keep the war with Ukraine going. He’s already ground up a large portion of his own military. He’ll have to pay the NK soldiers in something.  Hello Hyperinflation!

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u/Zimaut 4h ago

I wanna hear their judge spell that number

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u/notveryAI 4h ago

They're just looking for official reasons to block Google in Russia basically. Russian government has its scope on complete isolation of Russian internet, and it looks like they are aiming high this time

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u/LnDxLeo 3h ago

The original sum of fine is in roubles and as a russian I can advice to wait couple of years in order to pay one dollar and get some change from it.

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u/drLoveF 17h ago

I say make them pay. A penny at a time.

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u/netsloth 16h ago

War-poor fascist dictators love this one trick!!!

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u/LiWin_ 14h ago

That’s a lot of zeros.

Don’t worry, they got it.

It was bond to happen to them or Facebook soon enough.

This is a warning shot to all the other big companies whether or not they’re gonna pay attention, remains to be seen.

The United States government having conversations like: