Web big Google has obtained a big high quality from a Russian courtroom after it blocked content material from the nation’s state media networks on its video publishing platform, YouTube.
The whole sum of authorized claims towards Google reached two undecillion roubles ($313 nonillion or $313,871,979,999,999,962,932,929,332,510,720) based on the Russian information outlet RBK — a determine greater than all the cash on the earth mixed.
In the USA, one undecillion is a one adopted by 36 zeros, whereas in Britain, it’s a one adopted by 66 zeros.
That quantity is much bigger than the online value of Google itself, which is presently value $US2.1 trillion ($3.2 trillion), and better than all the cash on the earth mixed.
The Kremlin mentioned on Thursday that Russia’s enormous fines imposed on Google have been largely symbolic and designed to spur the web big into lifting restrictions on Russian YouTube channels.
“I am unable to even pronounce this quantity, however it’s extra doubtless imbued with symbolism,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov instructed Russian information companies.
“Google shouldn’t prohibit the actions of our broadcasters, but it surely does. This needs to be a purpose for Google’s administration to concentrate to this and proper the state of affairs,” he mentioned.
Since launching its Ukraine offensive in February 2022, Russia has levied enormous fines on social media firms accused of internet hosting Kremlin-critical or pro-Ukraine content material.
YouTube continues to be out there in Russia, however authorities have repeatedly threatened to take it offline over its bans on state-owned Russian content material.
Russian courts have repeatedly fined YouTube’s proprietor, Google, in a bid to power the tech big into compliance, with the authorized prices multiplying every day it fails to hold out calls for.
