Russia wants Google to pay a fine that's more money than exists on Earth
Russia wants Google to pay a fine that's more money than exists on Earth
Google’s unpaid fines in Russia have spiraled to an unimaginable 2 undecillion rubles ($2.5 decillion USD).
This is the government equivalent of “you owe me a bajillion dollars!” An unserious fine from an unserious government.
Even old-ass Dr. Evil snorted in surprise.
2 undecillion rubles ($2.5 decillion USD)
I'm sure Google is taking that real seriously.
Someone played too much Adventure Capitalist.
Or they'll push it out a window.
They could pay with one of those comically large cardboard checks, then forget to sign it.
Its from a fine that doubles every day. There's no judge literally demanding google pay this amount of money. Makes a good headline, though.
FTA: "The company’s Russian subsidiary declared bankruptcy in 2022". Its just been doubling the whole time.
Good, but not high enough for what Google has done.
Hey man, fuck google, but this isn’t achieving diddly squat lmao.
It is how things should be, although for valid reasons, not "the banned our accounts, we mad, grrrrr". The alternative is companies getting a "fine" that's a drop in the bucket and just continuing how they did previously. If the company does shitty things and gets banned because they can't pay a huge fine because of GDPR for instance, then good riddance.
If Russia wanted to be the good guy, they'd hack Google and opensource all the code.