#Russia fines Google $2.5 decillion for YouTube bans — eclipsing #global #GDP

Russia has fined Google an eye-popping 20 undecillion rubles ($2.5 decillion) for removing Russian state-run and government YouTube channels in the wake of the country’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

In other words, Google faces a $2.5 trillion trillion trillion bill from the country. Typed out in full, that figure is $2,500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

Russian news agency TASS reported that Google owes Russia a 36-figure sum for violating the country’s administrative offenses code by banning YouTube channels.

The report added that if Google fails to pay the fine within nine months, it will double every day thereafter, with no upper limit to the final figure. Google will be locked out of Russia until it pays the fine.