A Russian court has reportedly imposed a truly astronomical fine on Google for blocking a group of television channels on YouTube.
The court says Google collected a fine of 2 undecillion rubles (worth about $20 decillion USD) for blocking accounts of pro-Russian and state-run media, Russia-based media company RBC reports.
The Russian media companies have sued Google after the tech giant allegedly blocked the channels due to “violations of sanctions law and trade rules.”
According to RBC, the court ordered Google to pay an initial fine of 100,000 rubles – a fine that will be doubled every week if the channels are not restored.
“Undecillion” is an incredibly large number, equal to 1 followed by 36 zeros. A “decillion” is a number equal to 1 followed by 33 zeros.
In plain English, the $20 billion fine amounts to twenty thousand billion billion billion dollars.
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, reported net income of $73.8 billion for fiscal 2023, up from $60 billion in 2022.
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