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belijojo
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Yesterday, 7:06 pm

British Telegraph newspaper report

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Russia has demanded Google pay a fine worth more than the world’s GDP for blocking pro-Kremlin media outlets.

Judges in Moscow are seeking around $20 decillion from the technology giant, many times the estimated $100-trillion size of the global economy. If written out in full, the fine would be 20 followed by 33 zeros.

The penalty, which far eclipses Google’s own $2-trillion market value, comes after the US technology business barred pro-Moscow propaganda channel Tsargrad TV, which is owned by oligarch Konstantin Malofeev, from YouTube four years ago.

Google was fined a daily penalty of 100,000 roubles and warned that amount would double every 24 hours if it went unpaid. The technology giant now owes more than 2 undecillion roubles, a 36-digit figure, lawyer Ivan Morozov told the state-owned TASS news agency.

Russia could have just banned Google, but it chose to play a joke first :lol:


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Yesterday, 7:55 pm

And get money


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Yesterday, 9:39 pm

The funny thing is that "Google" is named after the "googol" which is a name invented by a mathematician for the number 10^100.