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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      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.

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      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.

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      This feels like an accurate comparison, maybe they forgot how badly the ruble declined?

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    Google declined to comment. However, there’s little that Moscow can do to collect the fine.

    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).