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A Russian court has fined Google two undecillion roubles - a two followed by 36 zeroes - 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's wealthiest companies, that is considerably more than the $2 trillion Google is worth.

In fact, it is far greater than the world’s total GDP, which is estimated by the International Monetary Fund to be $110 trillion.

The fine has reached such a gargantuan level because - as state news agency Tass has highlighted, external - it is rapidly increasing all the time.

According to Tass, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov admitted he "cannot even pronounce this number" but urged "Google management to pay attention."

The company has not commented publicly or responded to a BBC request for a statement.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxvnwkl5kgo

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[Crimson Dynamo]

Google is not a nice company

almost as bad as the BBC

avoid both

[UserSince2005]

they should pay it in 1 cent coins

[user104658]

TiBB has been fined 17 bazillion quantumbux for allowing too much shenanigans. Due to the conversion rate, that's actually 10x more than the amount in the OP. So.

[Nicky91]

Russia dislikes Google


i appreciate Google 1000000% more now