INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia has fined Google $2.5 decillion after the US tech giant acted against pro-Kremlin TV channels on YouTube following Moscow&& s
intrusion of Ukraine.Russia imposed an everyday fine 4 years back &-- a fine that has considering that swelled to an unprecedented level &--
($20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 &-- a 33-digit figure)
To put this into perspective, worldwide GDP reaches an estimated $110 thousand billion (12-digit figure), according to the IMF.Speaking to
Russia&& s TASS news agency, one specialist, Roman Yankovsky from the HSE Institute of Education, said Google && plainly will not pay this
penalty, and the Russian Federation will not be able to recuperate this cash from the business.&& Euronews reported that a short
calculation reveals that he is right.Google&& s holding company, Alphabet, has a market capitalisation of a little more than $2 trillion
Even with profits of $80.54 billion from the last quarter, the tech huge doesn&& t appear to be able to pay for to pay the fine.Google
initially disallowed pro-Moscow channel Tsargrad TV, which is owned by oligarch Konstantin Malofeev, 4 years ago.At the time, Google was
fined a day-to-day charge of 100,000 roubles and cautioned that quantity would double every 24 hours if it went unpaid.The initial fine has
actually been compounded by further penalties after Google eventually blocked an overall of 17 Russian television channels as a result of
global sanctions, The Telegraph reported.The tech giant now owes an incredible $2.5 decillion.The post Russia fines Google more than the
world&& s total GDP over YouTube prohibits initially appeared on Ariana News.
