Russia Fines Google an Insane Amount of Money

Russia says Google owes them 2-undecillion rubles, that's a 2 followed by 36 zeroes.

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00:00Russia says Google owes them two undecillion rubles.

00:05That's a two, followed by 36 zeros.

00:09The Kremlin claims the laughable amount because of Google blocking pro-Russian channels on YouTube.

00:16Now, to put that supposed fine in perspective, that's $20 decillion dollars.

00:22If you still don't get it, how about $20 billion trillion dollars?

00:27Still no? It's vastly more than the entire GDP of the entire world,

00:33which is a mere $110 trillion dollars, which is 55 times Google's $2 trillion dollar market cap.

00:41Russian state media recently ordered Google to restore Russian YouTube channels,

00:45several of which have been blocked since 2022,

00:49or else face fines that essentially double every week.

00:53Perhaps Google can just send the Kremlin a very long IOU on a Post-it.