Russia fined Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 - that’s 2.5 trillion trillion trillion dollars after the US tech giant took action against Putin’s propaganda.

  • LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Hey Google, now might be a good time to stop cowering to tinpot dictators. Google has bent over backwards to appease these people and this is what Google gets in return.

    • Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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      5 days ago

      Sure would be a shame if all Google services stopped working in Russia and russosympathetic nations, and people’s accounts that got accessed from primarily Russian locations get banned.

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        5 days ago

        Does it really help to isolate them from the rest of the world even more? It’s kind of what those dictators are trying to do in the first place.

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          Does it helps helping them censure the web ? It’s kinda what those dictators are trying to do in the first place.

          Like seriously, there is no winning with those kind of people. They only way to win the game is to not play.

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            5 days ago

            I mean, they are trying and failing to censure the web to their benefit. Hence the “fines”. Hypothetically, due to fines those services will be blocked anyway, that’s mostly the point.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      IIRC, the fine started at something like $1000 and doubled weekly. The fact that it’s ballooned to $20 decillion (or whatever) shows that they did stop appeasing them, because if Google had capitulated the balance would’ve quit growing.