Russia wants Google to pay a $20 decillion fine for blocking YouTube channels

Russia needs Google to pay an unfathomable sum of money in fines: $20 decillion, reportedly.
For the non-mathematicians on the market, that’s 2 adopted by 34 zeroes.

The positive has been accruing and doubling weekly since 2020 after Kremlin-backed information providers Tsargrad and RIA FAN received courtroom circumstances over the blocking of their YouTube channels, wrote The Moscow Instances, citing a report from the Russian information service RBC. The positive has additionally grown as 15 different channels have received circumstances towards Google, bringing the full to — watch for it — 20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, Gizmodo reported.

Google has reportedly not paid the fines, which has led to the astronomical determine. Even when it wished to, the tech large couldn’t pay what it owes. Estimates differ on how a lot cash exists on this planet, but it surely does not even come near $20 trillion.

To be clear, the precise quantity Google owes has assorted a bit from information supply to information supply. That is truthfully to be anticipated, contemplating we’re coping with a virtually hypothetical variety of rubles which can be then transformed to {dollars}. The purpose is obvious, nevertheless: It is an not possible sum of money.

Maybe Google should in the reduction of on nights out and avocado toast for a bit.