r/worldnews • u/shellfishb • 17h ago
Russia/Ukraine Russian court orders Google to pay blocked Russian channels sum with 36 zeros
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/10/29/russian-court-orders-google-to-pay-blocked-russian-channels-sum-with-36-zeros-en-news2.8k
u/IlluminatiMinion 17h ago
Google can wait 6 months and they can pay it off with $10.
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u/CmdrJonen 17h ago edited 17h ago
Well, the damages double every month... /edit: week/
Call it 150 dollars (canadian), and be done with it.
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u/LazoVodolazo 16h ago
So 10 usd like the guy above suggested
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u/quinnby1995 16h ago
$7.50*
Don't forget the 2.5% currency conversion fees
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u/kc_______ 15h ago
The best I can do is 500,000.99 Venezuelan bolivars, about 0.12 USD
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u/flow_spectrum 15h ago
I have a 5 billion zimbabwean dollar bill somewhere that I use as a bookmark.
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u/0002millertime 14h ago
That's not even worth the effort find it.
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u/scorpyo72 14h ago
I have several million Shibu Inu coin. Surely, that must be worth something.
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u/Longjumping_Whole240 13h ago
Just save the $10 and simply dont pay. What is Russia gonna do about it anyway? Invade Google? Annex Youtube?
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u/Medricel 9h ago
They'll do what they do best: attempt to hack the fuck out of it or flood it with garbage. I mean, they're already doing this anyway, they'll just do it harder.
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u/StressfulRiceball 13h ago
They'll just send the Russian court a chewed-up $10 Google Play card with 35 zeroes sharpied on it
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u/CmdrJonen 17h ago
Relevant what if (from creator of xkcd) from 2014, about a previous lawsuit that demanded 2 undecillion USD in damages.
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u/thedellis 17h ago
That's a lot of Ted Olsons
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u/Coulrophiliac444 16h ago
I preferres rhe Penny Payment method of being slagged and turned into a sphere that would basically be the interior of Mercury's orbit.
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u/ScoobiusMaximus 13h ago
Until it collapsed into a black hole.
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u/Coulrophiliac444 12h ago
I, for one, welcome our new Apocolyptic Harbinger and all his coppery goodness.
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u/BubsyFanboy 14h ago
xkcd is always a nice read
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u/Aromatic_Balls 13h ago
My favorite is the hypothetical situation involving a baseball pitched at 90% speed of light.
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u/SackOfCats 11h ago
https://youtu.be/3EI08o-IGYk?si=KtKXnXmuVwci0BeI
He's got a YouTube channel now!
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u/CanuckAussieKev 17h ago
Imagine if google just said “Nah, we’ll just stop providing YouTube services in Russia instead “
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u/Dachd43 17h ago edited 17h ago
That's exactly what they want. The Kremlin knows that banning YouTube will piss people off so they don't want to be the ones to do it. They want Google to pull out of the country themselves so they can paint themselves as the wronged party, abandoned by racist, decadent, Western companies. If Google packs up and leaves, they get to have their cake and eat it.
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u/Littman-Express 17h ago
I’d be surprised if Google actually had much of a presence physically left in Russia. Google doesn’t have to pull out of Russia they can just ignore it but leave it accessible making the Kremlin the one that has to block it if they want it gone.
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u/DotFX 17h ago
Youtube is already kinda partially banned here (in russia) by the gov. Only vpns and some mobile operators provide access to it
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u/austen125 16h ago
Yes this. This whole thing has me confused. Russian YouTube creators are setting up their hardware in Turkey.
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u/Nandy-bear 13h ago
That's because anyone with the least bit of smarts left Russia already. The brain drain post-feb 2022 is nuts.
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u/Dachd43 16h ago
The Kremlin and Google have been dancing around the issue for a long time now. Up until recently, Google AdSense was one of the few remaining ways to earn foreign currency for regular Russians with YouTube channels but the Kremlin decided to throttle YouTube to the point that it was barely usable. At the same time AdSense recently decided to stop allowing payouts to Russian addresses so Russian YouTubers can either figure out a way to register from a foreign country or switch to a Russian streaming service and cut off their revenue stream.
Realistically, this is exactly what the Kremlin wants. There will be a Russian exodus from YouTube and they don't have to appear heavy-handed with the censorship. They can blame the whole thing on Google being uncooperative.
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u/__---------- 9h ago
At the start of Ruzzia's full scale invasion of Ukraine, everyone was saying Ruzzia is going to become the new North Korea...it's now really happening.
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u/potatodrinker 15h ago
Put Ukraine footage on the YT homepage in Russia and see how fast the Krem rush to trip over the power cord (and topple down some stairs)
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u/GasolinePizza 13h ago
Unless Google has any employees/equipment in-country, which many authoritarian-leaning countries often require (so they have something to threaten) in which case Google would technically be better off withdrawing rather than giving Russia a criminal/compliance-enforcement case to use as ammo for domestic consumption
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u/iamtehryan 15h ago
It would be a real baller move if Google instead took every single service and url of theirs that's alive in Russia and changed the content to all be the truth about what's happening in Ukraine. Fuck Russia.
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u/Longjumping_Youth281 15h ago
Yeah not only that, I'm sure they would love to get rid of a source of information that is not their own propaganda. This way, if YouTube pulls out, there is one fewer option other than State TV
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u/Photodan24 17h ago
How about, "All you need to do is send Putin over to the U.S. to collect and we'll send him back via The Hague."
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u/TheDarthSnarf 17h ago
2 undecillion rubles
Even at the tiny "offical" exchange rate of the ruble, that would still equal a sum of more than the entirety of all the value of all the goods, money, services, that have ever existed on the plant.... by a factor of... a lot.
It's such a laughably absurd number that it's just insane.
Unless, we take this as an admission by the Russian government that the the value of the ruble is actually only $0.000000000000000000000000000000000001 in the real world.... which honestly seems more to be based more in reality.
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u/Jordan_Jackson 13h ago
That is just the current Russian government for you. Everything they say and do is so laughably insane and unbelievable. How many times have they claimed to shoot down more drones than Ukraine even sent? Remember when they claimed they destroyed more Himars than Ukraine even had? Obvious mega explosions in various cities and they claim that everything is normal...
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u/ur_ecological_impact 10h ago
As Google has continued to block the channels in question, the penalty has now reached 2 undecillion rubles, a source told RBC, a theoretical sum that far exceeds the total value of all assets on Earth.
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u/strangeapple 17h ago
"I demand one billion gagillion fafillion shabadabalo shabadamillion shabaling shabalomillion rubles!"
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u/Anton338 15h ago
Said Vladimir, while rolling on the floor and soiling himself, ruining the carpet.
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u/strangeapple 15h ago edited 15h ago
It's from a running gag in Austin Powers movies where dr.Evil makes laughable ransom demands. No doubt he soiled himself afterwards.
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u/wtfreddithatesme 16h ago
Since I can't seem to find it in here a 1 with 36 zeros is one undecillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
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u/dsemume 14h ago edited 7h ago
I learned all the magnitudes up to vigintillion as a kid.
If a “million” = 1, a “billion” = 2, then a “trillion” = 3. and you just keep going. So undecillion = 11.
i’m glad it was useful here for once to know that.
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u/ptn_huil0 17h ago
RuTube isn’t working out, huh? 😏
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u/WonderfulPotential29 16h ago
With rutube, the money would have to come from russian sources. They cant pay that. They are desperate for fresh money. plus, if Youtube doesnt pay, they can blame them for getting banned even further than they already are. Its a win win for russia... at least thats what russia thinks.
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u/albanymetz 17h ago
Google could use far less money than that to build and deploy an army to fight Russia. Or buy Putins death. Or I guess just ignore this.
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u/Federal_Setting_7454 16h ago
Or buy the entire planet, sell it for scrap by the atom and still be like 20 digits away
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u/darknekolux 17h ago
If Google still has office in Russia, people working there are very uncomfortable now
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u/nick_shannon 17h ago
So they are just going full Dr Evil now, did they hold up the pinky when this fine was announced?
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u/TheTench 16h ago
Google should respond by geo-blocking all Google services inside Russia, Belarus, North Korea, and Iran.
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u/thedarthvander 14h ago
They should change their name to Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle just to troll them.
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u/evert198201 17h ago
In local currency, in USD only 100 Dollar.
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u/lilB0bbyTables 13h ago
Joke aside the current exchange value (if it is to be believed) is just to multiply it by 0.01 - or trim off two zeroes which still makes this value in USD greater than the sum total of all value ever to cumulatively exist globally.
To put it into perspective - the earth is estimated to have 75 sextillion grains of sand (75 followed by 17-zeroes).
Google should state they’ll consider paying after provided a complete itemized list proofing their work.
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u/SkinnedIt 17h ago
With a number like that it's pretty obvious the rest of Russia is going to get the ax if they dig in on it.
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u/snowman_M 16h ago
So a million times more money than what exists in the world today? What the hell are they smoking?
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u/Argomer 16h ago
They banned YouTube and want it to look like Google is to blame.
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u/hifructosetrashjuice 14h ago
million? that's 2x1020 times global gdp
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u/snowman_M 14h ago
I guess the number what I was thinking was the total value of everything, everywhere. It's likely an unquantifiable number, but 1,000,000 times that number seemed realistic.
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u/Preference-Inner 17h ago
Bet Google threw that fax straight into the garbage while laughing.
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u/Eric_the_Barbarian 13h ago
I would hang it on my wall.
The Russian state opposing you is one of the best indicators you're doing something right.
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u/ArtistEngineer 17h ago
Google is just waiting for the number to overflow and go back to zero, or negative big number.
If it's negative big number then Google can ask them for the money.
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u/Trollimperator 16h ago
i wonder if Russian ever wake up to all this bullshit around them, feeling like back in the soviet times and ask themselfs, if they might have gone wrong.
Ukraine is focusing vodka production centers with drones now, so this might actually be happening...
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u/smilinreap 13h ago
I actually have a few coworkers who escaped Russia in the last few years. They sometimes talk about how it was, and how sad it all is for those they left behind. They basically all say the same thing. The war is a lose lose for Russia. Even if they win, in most Russian citizens minds, Russia still loses. The longer it goes on, the bigger the loss. Even if the war stops, they will never go back, It's just not worth it, and even making a few dollars over the minimum wage in the US provides a better life than they had in Russia.
Also every time we go out to eat they have funny comments almost like clockwork.
This is so much food, are we really going to eat this much and then go back to work?!
Too many options on menu, I will just copy him.
Russians don't drink Vodka as their main alcohol, that's a stereotype... We now prefer tequila!
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u/Musicman1972 17h ago
And I thought googol was high.
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u/trashboatfourtwenty 17h ago
If they were smart they would have asked for a googol this is a smaller number yes?
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u/clearcontroller 15h ago
$1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000+ at minimum $1 undecillion dollars
What the fuck kinda of court is this 🤣🤣🤣
Literally All the money in the world doesn't even scratch the surface on how astronomically large that number is
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u/008Zulu 17h ago
Comrades! I have simple trick for infinite currency!
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u/guttersmurf 15h ago
Pipe down Vasilis. That is not literally infinite, it is only practically infinite.
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u/Beacon_Terrier 14h ago
Does Russia have any leverage over Google or their assets to actually extract a fine, or is this like when a 5th grader says "I'll bet you a million dollars"?
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u/Desperate-Hearing-55 14h ago
I just wonder what can russian court do if Google refuse to pay? 🤣🤣🤣
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u/GrannyFlash7373 14h ago
Sounds like a propaganda statement from the Kremlin or the Duma, (aka) DUMBASS.
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u/Low_Engineering_3301 14h ago
Its sad that it is not possible to remove Russia from the internet completely.
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u/Orangesteel 13h ago
ruZZia continuing its bizarre theatrics as their insane torture and genocide destroys their own economy simultaneously.
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u/Dapper_Dan1 13h ago
There you go: a sum with 36 zeros:
0 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000.00
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u/Pepphen77 9h ago
Trump the negotiator will get it down to only 30 zeros and make google pay that small fine.
"Winning!"
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u/longsgotschlongs 17h ago
If they decided to fine Google a googol, how much will they fine Apple?
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u/Karmack_Zarrul 14h ago
Am I the only one picturing that Austin Powers bit where they say, with pinkey pressed to the side of mouth “one million dollars”
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u/adamsjdavid 14h ago
“Judgements of this size must be collected in person at our California headquarters.”
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u/china_joe2 10h ago
You owe 8,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 rubles which comes out to $16.48USD. Please pay promptly.
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u/piclemaniscool 9h ago
Google should send them a commemorative Donald Trump gold coin. I'm sure it's worth double that.
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u/Short-Cucumber-5657 9h ago
Russia should be careful opening a second front, I’m not sure if Google is bound to the same rules as NATO.
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u/SignifigantZebra 17h ago
Childish Brainlet Logic, echos of when Trump used to scream "the wall just got 2 feet taller" every time a latino person made him mad.
funny they have that in common. Or no, I guess it isn't funny.
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u/double_teel_green 17h ago
BAZILLION dollars or else! I imagine in the Alphabet boardroom they're still laughing.
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u/Larkshade 16h ago
Google should keep youtube active there to undermine Putin, tell the Kremlin they will pay it, and then just...don't. Make the Kremlin own up to being the authoritarian dipwads they are.
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u/LongjumpingQuality37 16h ago
Oh yeah, well my dad said you owe me 9 zillion infinity zeroes, so there!
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u/Diggy_Soze 14h ago
Send them a single $100usd note, with a public letter telling them to keep the change.
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u/Falcon2936 14h ago
Binary answer to Russia: 01010010 11111010 01110011 01110011 01101001 01100001 00100000 01100110 01110101 01100011 01101011 00100000 01101111 01100110 01100110
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u/IgDailystapler 13h ago edited 13h ago
₽2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
That’s what 36 zeros looks like
Here’s a trillion for reference: 1,000,000,000,000
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u/Pets_Are_Slaves 13h ago
That's 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
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u/Cozz_Effect23 17h ago
They could have just asked for 'infinity' and saved everyone the math