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Russia fines Google more than the world’s total GDP over YouTube bans

https:// www.euronews.com /business/2024/10/30/russia-fines-google-more-than-the-worlds-total-gdp-over-youtube-bans

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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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.

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- 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.
  
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  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.
  
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- Oh no, what ever will they do without the world's largest spy agency.
  
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- 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.
  
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Google should mail them a giant check

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

Edit: sorry, it says so in the article.

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- 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?
  
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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.

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- 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!
  
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- Ah not if we make a new note.
  
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So Russia is saying that companies are obliged to carry content they disagree with?

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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)

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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.

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- enforcementtracker.com
  
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- 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.).
  
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Google’s response

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

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

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lmao, nice one

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