Video: Russia Fines Google for $2.5 Decillion

Google's being sued for a million bajillion gazillion dollars or something like that find out more in today's video what's up everybody welcome back to ecurity planet today we have a crazy and headline grabbing story about YouTube Google and a find so huge it actually surpasses the entire world's GDP but before we break this down remember to subscribe to the channel or I will sue you for one 100 billion now that we got that out of the way let's break down what happened and why so here's the deal a court in Russia has slapped Google with a fine of what hold on pause the video hold on that that can't be right give me one second a few moments later carry the carry the two two hours later wait let me all right hold on let me get my calculator later that same evening s okay look seriously you can't even if you can't see it on the camera but it actually says you can't enter more than 15 digits that that's wild okay so uh let's get back to it that's right Russia is suing Google for 20 Dillion rubles or 2.5 Dillion us if you're trying to keep count that's 33 zeros to give you some perspective here's a chart that we found on Reddit showing the difference in big numbers to add even more perspective this amount is not only impossible for any company to pay but it also dwarfs the entire Global GDP many times over the gross domestic product or GDP of the entire planet so that's planet Earth is rejected to be almost $110 trillion which means Russia is suing Google for literally more than all the money in the world so what caused this problem you see the issue dates back to 2020 when YouTube block s at TV after the United States imposed sanctions against its owner at that time the court had ordered a daily fine of 100,000 rubles or $1,025 us per day with the total amount set to double every week if the fine was unpaid following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 YouTube proceeded to block more channels on their platform in total 17 channels were blocked including a TV Channel owned by Russian President Vladimir Putin's Ministry of Defense a Russian court ordered that Google restore all the channels and pay a fine the court also warned them that non-compliance would lead to compounding fines with no cealing amount if the channels weren't reinstated shortly thereafter Google's Russian division shut down and filed for bankruptcy and Russia seized over $100 million in assets which according to court documents was actually more than what Google was ordered to pay which brings us to today where after the courts calculated all the compounding fines for each of the 17 channels resulted in his astronomical amount that I didn't even know existed until today so is Google going to pay this crazy fine well we couldn't reach a spokesperson from Google's parent company alphabit so we decided to do the next best thing give me one second 10 seconds later hey is Google going to pay the 20 Dillion dollar fine from Russia according to Fortune it would take Google more than 33 quintilian years to pay Russia's dubious fine Russia has fined Google and I popping 20 unilan rubles $2 50 cents dilian for removing Russian state run and government YouTube channels in the wake of the country's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 spoiler alert almost definitely not it's unclear if Google will even respond to this since it's practically unenforceable and the amount is obviously absurd in the latest earnings call a Google rep said the following we have ongoing legal matters relating to Russia for example civil judgments that include compounding penalties have been imposed Upon Us in connection with disputes regarding the termination of accounts including those of sanctioned parties we do not believe these ongoing legal matters will have a material adverse effect so then what's next well Russia will probably continue to impose more fines or even potentially block Services if Google doesn't comply but I guess we'll just have to wait and see if this escalates further or if this fine was just meant to make a statement but that's it for today's video let us know in the comments do you think Google should respond or should they just ignore this fine altogether make sure to hit that like button if you found the story as crazy as we did and also subscribe to the E security Planet channel if you want to stay updated with the latest in cyber security news and events thanks for watching and we'll catch you in the next video 20 Dillion dollar it doesn't even it doesn't make any sense you can't even put that in the calculator no guys seriously is that even a real number for

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