Russia fines Google $32,000 for videos about the conflict in Ukraine
A Russian court on Thursday imposed a 3-million-ruble ($32,000) fine on Google for failing to delete allgedly false information about the conflict in Ukraine
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I don’t know exact numbers but I feel like $32K is like them fining me a nickel.
Google made 279 billion dollars in 2022. By my calculations $32,000 is about .0000001147% of 279 billion dollars.
So if someone made $50,000 in 2022 then this fine would be like .007 cents to them. So way less than a penny. Geez.
ETA: Corrected math, was off by 2 zeros on the percentage.
Hey, do you want them to up that to 4 million rubles? Keep talking that way and it’s coming. Then they’ll really feel it.
This feels like an accurate comparison, maybe they forgot how badly the ruble declined?
I do get a Dr. Evil "One million dollars" vibe from this.
Lol
Especially with the low dollar figure, this doesn't sound like anything anyone expects to correspond to reality -- more just a lower-court judge who doesn't want to get in trouble and so is being publicly obedient to how we all agree it is (враньё).
The ruble is worth so little that $32k in Russia is like a billion dollars at this point.
Boy, this sure is news worthy.