Business Insider reported on October 30 that a huge fine was issued in a legal dispute between Google and Russia over the suspension of pro-Kremlin YouTube accounts.
Accordingly, this fine is related to legal complaints from 17 Russian TV channels about their YouTube accounts being banned by Google.
Russia began imposing these fines on Google in 2019, when a Russian court ordered Google to pay $1 million for blocking the YouTube channels of pro-Russian news agencies Tsargrad and RIA FAN, and also ordered Google to restore these accounts. The court also announced that this amount would double every day until Google paid and restored the banned accounts.
However, Google immediately refused to comply with this request and was forced to pay a fine that doubled every year. And up to now, the amount that Russia fined Google has reached 20.6 quadrillion USD (20,600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) .
The figure is so large that even if Google gave Russia all the products the world produced in a year, plus all the products produced every day since the universe was formed until now, it would only pay 3% of the fine.
Since launching its campaign in Ukraine in February 2022, Russia has imposed huge fines on social media companies accused of hosting pro-Ukrainian content or criticizing the Kremlin.
YouTube is still available in Russia, but Russian authorities have repeatedly warned that they will block the platform because of bans on Russian state-owned content.
Russian courts have repeatedly fined Google, the owner of YouTube, to force the tech giant to comply with Moscow's demands, with legal costs mounting every day that Google fails to comply.
In 2022, Google closed its Russian branch and its Russian subsidiary also declared bankruptcy. Google's parent company, Alphabet, does not seem to think that this legal dispute will seriously affect the company.
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