{"id":100868,"date":"2024-10-31T15:03:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T15:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/31\/russia-fines-google-more-money-than-there-is-in-entire-world\/"},"modified":"2024-10-31T15:03:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T15:03:03","slug":"russia-fines-google-more-money-than-there-is-in-entire-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/russia-fines-google-more-money-than-there-is-in-entire-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia fines Google more money than there is in entire world"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Russian court has fined Google two undecillion roubles \u2013 a two followed by 36 zeroes \u2013 for restricting Russian state media channels on YouTube.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In dollar terms that means the tech giant has been told to pay $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.<\/p>\n

Despite being one of the world\u2019s wealthiest companies, that is considerably more than the $2 trillion Google is worth.<\/p>\n

In fact, it is far greater than the world\u2019s total GDP, which is estimated by the International Monetary Fund to be $110 trillion.<\/p>\n

The fine has reached such a gargantuan level because \u2013 state news agency Tass says \u2013 it doubles every day it is not paid.<\/p>\n

According to Tass, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov admitted he \u201ccannot even pronounce this number\u201d but urged \u201cGoogle management to pay attention.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company has not commented publicly or responded to a BBC request for a statement.<\/p>\n

A fine mess<\/strong><\/p>\n

Russia media outlet RBC reports the fine on Google relates to the restriction of content of 17 Russian media channels on YouTube.<\/p>\n

While this started in 2020, it escalated after Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine two years later.<\/p>\n

That saw most Western companies pull out of Russia, with doing business there also tightly restricted by sanctions.<\/p>\n

Russian media outlets were also banned in Europe \u2013 prompting retaliatory measures from Moscow.<\/p>\n

This development is the latest escalation between Russia and the US tech giant.<\/p>\n

In May, 2021, Russia\u2019s media regulator Roskomnadzor accused Google of restricting YouTube access to Russian media outlets, including RT and Sputnik, and supporting \u201cillegal protest activity\u201d.<\/p>\n

Then, in July, 2022, Russia fined Google 21.1bn rouble (\u00a3301m) for failing to restrict access to what it called \u201cprohibited\u201d material about the war in Ukraine and other content.<\/p>\n

There is virtually no press freedom in Russia, with independent news outlets and freedom of expression severely curtailed.<\/p>\n

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A Russian court has fined Google two undecillion roubles \u2013 a two followed by 36 zeroes \u2013 for restricting Russian state media channels on YouTube. In dollar terms that means the tech giant has been told to pay $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Despite being one of the world\u2019s wealthiest companies, that is considerably more than the $2 trillion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}