Giulia Gambazzi Un Russian court ha Google fined for the removal of some national television channels from the YouTube platform. The figure is sensational and is the highest ever established against the technological giant: 2,5 decillion dollars (a 33-digit number).
The case against Google
The lawsuit began in 2020, when Google removed the Russian ultranationalist channel Tsargrad from YouTube in response to US sanctions against Russia. The figure of 2,5 decillion dollars will obviously be impossible to collect since Google has a market capitalization of just over $2.000 trillion and quarterly profits of about $80 billion. The fine is more of a challenge from Russia to the U.S. tech giant.
The astronomical fine
The figure of 2,5 decillion dollars represents something surreal and completely disproportionate. The world GDP, in fact, is around 110.000 billion dollars, which makes the sanction more than 23 million times greater than all the money present on Earth. This is explained by the lawyer Ivan Morozov, quoted by the Russian news agency Tass. It follows that it is a completely unrealistic figure and with a purely ideological value.
