Mtoa Taarifa
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Kampuni ya Google imepigwa faini ya rubles bilioni 2 (takriban $2.5 decillion) nchini Urusi kwa kukataa kufungua akaunti za pro-Kremlin na vyombo vya habari vya serikali, kama ilivyoripotiwa na RBC.
Adhabu hizo zilianza kwa kutozwa faini ya kila siku ya rubles 100,000 mwaka wa 2020, ikiongezeka maradufu kila wiki baada ya kesi zinazotolewa na mashirika kama Tsargrad na RIA FAN. Ikumbukwe Google ilikuwa na mapato ya dola bilioni 307 mwaka 2023, kimsingi uwezekano wa kulipa faini hiyo haupo.
A Russian court has ruled that Google owes Russian media stations around $20 decillion in fines for blocking their content, and the fines could get bigger.
To put that into perspective, the World Bank estimates global GDP as around $100 trillion, which is peanuts compared to the prospective fine. Google would therefore have to find more money than exists on Earth to pay Moscow - but on Tuesday fell a little short of that mark when it posted $88 billion quarterly revenue.
The bizarre amount has been calculated after a four-year court case that started after YouTube banned the ultra-nationalist Russian channel Tsargrad in 2020 in response to the US sanctions imposed against its owner. Following Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine in 2022 more channels were added to the banned list and 17 stations are now suing the Chocolate Factory, including Zvezda (a TV channel owned by Putin's Ministry of Defence), according to local media.
"Google was called by a Russian court to administrative liability under Art. 13.41 of the Administrative Offenses Code for removing channels on the YouTube platform. The court ordered the company to restore these channels," lawyer Ivan Morozov told state media outlet TASS.
The court imposed a fine of 100 thousand rubles ($1,025) per day, with the total fine doubling every week. Owing to compound interest (Einstein's eighth wonder of the world), Google is now on the hook for an insane amount of money, or what the judge on Monday called “a case in which there are many, many zeros.”
Adhabu hizo zilianza kwa kutozwa faini ya kila siku ya rubles 100,000 mwaka wa 2020, ikiongezeka maradufu kila wiki baada ya kesi zinazotolewa na mashirika kama Tsargrad na RIA FAN. Ikumbukwe Google ilikuwa na mapato ya dola bilioni 307 mwaka 2023, kimsingi uwezekano wa kulipa faini hiyo haupo.
A Russian court has ruled that Google owes Russian media stations around $20 decillion in fines for blocking their content, and the fines could get bigger.
To put that into perspective, the World Bank estimates global GDP as around $100 trillion, which is peanuts compared to the prospective fine. Google would therefore have to find more money than exists on Earth to pay Moscow - but on Tuesday fell a little short of that mark when it posted $88 billion quarterly revenue.
The bizarre amount has been calculated after a four-year court case that started after YouTube banned the ultra-nationalist Russian channel Tsargrad in 2020 in response to the US sanctions imposed against its owner. Following Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine in 2022 more channels were added to the banned list and 17 stations are now suing the Chocolate Factory, including Zvezda (a TV channel owned by Putin's Ministry of Defence), according to local media.
"Google was called by a Russian court to administrative liability under Art. 13.41 of the Administrative Offenses Code for removing channels on the YouTube platform. The court ordered the company to restore these channels," lawyer Ivan Morozov told state media outlet TASS.
The court imposed a fine of 100 thousand rubles ($1,025) per day, with the total fine doubling every week. Owing to compound interest (Einstein's eighth wonder of the world), Google is now on the hook for an insane amount of money, or what the judge on Monday called “a case in which there are many, many zeros.”