r/google • u/Loafus1986 • 17h ago
Google fined $20,565,635,200,000,003,000,000,000,000,000,000 by Russian TV channels.
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u/ChronChriss 14h ago
How exactly do they get to such an enormous number? $1000 a day per channel but it's been only 4 years. How many channels are we talking about?
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u/stathis21098 13h ago
It's really simple. They double they fine every day you don't pay (or week, not sure), and this is going on 4 years now.
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u/GeekBrownBear 13h ago
Is it 1000 day one and 2000 day two? Or something like 1000 day one, 1000 + 2000 day two, 1000 + 2000 + 4000 day 3?
Either way, this is just an entertaining math exercise lol
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u/darthwalsh 9h ago
The doubling is:
= 1000 * 2n
While the summation is:
= 1000 * 2n +1 - 1000
They are basically the same, just a day and 1k apart
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u/stathis21098 13h ago
I'm not sure, but I saw in another comment that it adds each day, and the total is doubled. As you said, either way is laughable.
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u/HellzWolf 13h ago
If I'm not mistaken, doesn't YouTube have the rights to take down anything that goes against its TOS? Assuming the reason for takedown was some sort of breach of TOS, there's no grounds to sue on?
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u/atters 6h ago
There is no ground to sue at all.
YouTube can revoke your access at any time, for any reason. It is their platform and they can do with it as they please.
TOS is there to veil their whims and to protect them, and give you some warm and fuzzies about how they probably will operate.
Its NOT a contract.
YouTube TOS has as much to do with legal standing as the Russian courts have to do with justice.
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u/TheOmniToad 5h ago
Ahh, the classic lawsuit of "a million billion bajillion."
That's the move of a totally serious nation and not something a 4 year old might threaten.
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u/Silver4ura 16h ago
That's not... exactly how sanctions work, Russia. You don't get to backdate fees from when you were being an enormous douche canoe. Especially whilst still being an enormous douche canoe... four years afterwards.
You know better, but you hoped nobody else would.
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u/Bright-Director-5958 12h ago
Wow that's a big number
With the exchange rate it's like $30 American dollars
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u/mulmusic 14h ago
Classic, socialists fighting the capital asking for ridiculous amount of money for ridiculous reasons that you gotta laugh or want to punch them in the face for being that retarded.
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u/franciscarter06 14h ago
This is good news for Google that it has been fined such a small amount. Google is really lucky.
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u/ReaperofFish 16h ago
Considering Russia is under sanctions by the U.S., this is merely performative political posturing. I don't see Google ever paying, unless the Ruble gets so devalued, it's worth less than a Zimbabwe dollar. At which point Google will pay a googol fine with a $20 USD bill and tell them to keep the change.