A Russian court fined the world-famous tech company google more than the total wealth of the world is now the talk of the town. A Russian court has ordered google to pay $20 trillion in fines. In English, decillion is 1 followed by 34 zeros. A Russian court has fined google $20 trillion. Earlier, the Russian court had ordered google to pay a fine of 1200 dollars a day. But after google refused, the fine was doubled every day. That means google now has to pay russia a fine of 34 dollars with two zeros behind it. According to the international Monetary Fund, the total GDP of the world is 110 trillion dollars. 20 decillion means 20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. But russia has fined google even more than that. When the war between russia and ukraine started in 2022, YouTube banned Russian government-run channels on YouTube.
Various Russian companies have filed a court case against YouTube's parent company, Google's Alphabet, to lift the ban. A Russian court hearing the case ordered google to pay a fine of $1,028 for each day that the ban on these channels continues. From the date of the verdict till date, the total amount of fines has reached 20 trillion dollars. All the money in the world cannot even come close to this amount of fines. There has been no statement from google regarding the Russian court's imposition of this fine. Attempts by various news outlets to contact google have not been forthcoming. The YouTube site continues to operate in Russia. But the state-owned channels remain muted. The Russian government is warning that YouTube will be completely banned in their country if this situation continues.
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