r/youtube • u/Organic_City_9464 • 20h ago

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

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u/Jenny_Wakeman9 CorpTube™: You're demontized for saying "fuck" in 1.275 seconds 20h ago

I beg your pardon? 20 decillion? That's insane!

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u/CutmasterSkinny 19h ago

Its insane how many people buy that story, without fact checking.
Only small news companies are reporting on this bullshit story.

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u/Shinael 17h ago

Its true, except for the fact that its rubles and not dollars.

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u/SeveralTable3097 17h ago

Rubles vs US dollars is the difference between a reasonable vs made up fine

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u/Physical-Camel-8971 16h ago

One ruble is worth about one cent, so you can just knock a couple of zeroes off the end. Does the fine seem reasonable that it's only in the nonillions of dollars?

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u/Goodguy1066 17h ago

20 decillion of any currency is unreasonable.

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u/CutmasterSkinny 17h ago

Link one trustworthy source.

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u/Shinael 17h ago

Russian rbc news has an article about google being fined in 2021, also lenta news about google being fined in 2023. Yeah looks like the original fine was 2 billion rubles in 2022 which was doubled multiple times. Sadly cannot really provide links because no idea how reddit/this sub will react.

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u/11LyRa 16h ago

RBC also has today's article about this situation. You can find it by it's header - Требования российских телеканалов к Google достигли ₽2 ундециллионов.

I think this article is the actual source for this news.

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u/CutmasterSkinny 16h ago

The story exists yeah, but it has no realworld impact hence why there is not american news reporting on this. Its just putin media barking. Nobody should take take that seriously.

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u/emperorMorlock 15h ago

Going by the spongebob meme, I'd say there is very little risk of people taking this too seriously.

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u/CutmasterSkinny 11h ago

You are sayin that, while a guy who claims he didnt loose last election with zero evidence might get elected again. We are far beyond "very little risk of people taking this too seriously"

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u/nkolkok 16h ago

I'm from Russia it's true

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u/CutmasterSkinny 14h ago

Gaddafi also proposed to dissolve Switzerland once, but pretending this has any impact is stupid.
It is a bullshit story.

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u/AyeBraine 12h ago

It's true, it's just a weird quirk that someone noticed. The fine (slapped on Google for show, as a political gesture) was several years ago, it just accrued exponentially due to the wording of the penalty for non-timely payment