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.

  • @prime_number_314159@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    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)

  • @LANIK2000@lemmy.world
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    412 hours ago

    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.

  • @LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world
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    1820 hours ago

    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.

    • @grue@lemmy.world
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      112 hours ago

      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.

    • Miles O'Brien
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      518 hours ago

      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.

      • Farid
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        818 hours ago

        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.

        • @Ismay@programming.dev
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          315 hours ago

          Does it helps helping them censure the web ? It’s kinda what those dictators are trying to do in the first place.

          Like seriously, there is no winning with those kind of people. They only way to win the game is to not play.

          • Farid
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            113 hours ago

            I mean, they are trying and failing to censure the web to their benefit. Hence the “fines”. Hypothetically, due to fines those services will be blocked anyway, that’s mostly the point.

    • @idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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      213 hours ago

      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?

  • Nougat
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    619 hours ago

    So Russia is saying that companies are obliged to carry content they disagree with?

  • @KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world
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    319 hours ago

    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.