Russia fines Google $32,000 for videos about the conflict in Ukraine

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Russia fines Google $32,000 for videos about the conflict in Ukraine
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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.