{"id":5693,"date":"2024-10-31T04:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T04:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/31\/russia-fines-google-more-than-worlds-entire-gdp-for-blocking-youtube-accounts\/"},"modified":"2024-10-31T04:00:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T04:00:30","slug":"russia-fines-google-more-than-worlds-entire-gdp-for-blocking-youtube-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/31\/russia-fines-google-more-than-worlds-entire-gdp-for-blocking-youtube-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia fines Google more than world\u2019s entire GDP for blocking YouTube accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has reportedly racked up a fine of more than two undecillion rubles \u2013 two followed by 36 zeros \u2013 after it removed state-run and pro-government accounts from YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Put another way, an undecillion is a trillion times a trillion times a trillion.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\">    <\/div>\n<p>The fine is far greater than the world\u2019s total GDP, estimated at $110 trillion by the International Monetary Fund.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Google<\/strong> \u2013 which owns <strong>YouTube<\/strong> \u2013 has a current stock market value of $2.16 trillion, so probably won\u2019t be stumping up the cash any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>The fine is also still growing due to non-payment and, if not paid within nine months, will start to double every day, <strong>reported state news agency Tass<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>The mind-boggling amount has grown because Google hasn\u2019t restored YouTube accounts belonging to 17 Russian TV channels, <strong>according to Russia\u2019s RBC News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It claims a judge in the case said at a hearing on 28 October that he was considering \u201ca case in which there are many, many zeros\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Google can reportedly only return to the Russian market if it complies with the court decision.<\/p>\n<p>The case was first filed privately in 2020 after the accounts of the Tsargrad TV channel and RIA FAN were blocked due to US sanctions laws, reported RBC.<\/p>\n<p>It then escalated after the start of the Ukraine war when YouTube blocked accounts belonging to the likes of Sputnik and RT after which Russian authorities got involved.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has reportedly racked up a fine of more than two undecillion rubles \u2013 two&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}