With a sum of 36 zeros, Russia fined global technology company Google. 20 billion trillion trillion dollars It is a sum that the mind can hardly reach and this is what Google owes to the Russian government and according to local media, the fine could increase.
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Many companies that had their products and services in this country have decided to withdraw as a measure of protest against Russia’s attacks on Ukraine and other measures that the government considers unfair.
McDonald’s, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Netflix and Nintendo are some of the companies that have stopped offering their services in the country and because of this, many Russian hackers have carried out constant cyber attacks on different systems in the United States.
Although in most parts of the World, the search engine par excellence is Google, in Russia it is not so.
Another search engine called Yandex is used there, which also offers email, maps, music, advertising and news, but this has not prevented Russia from imposing this fine on Google.
The sum, which causes laughter in some, is an unpayable figure, since the World Bank, for example, points out that the Gross Domestic Product -GDP- of the entire world is around 100 trillion dollars, that is, in Colombian pesos. 420,000 billion.
According to the company, not all the money in the world would be enough to pay this amount.
According to Ivan Morozov, a lawyer who has spoken with the state media ITAR-TASS (news agency inherited from the services and networks of the former Soviet TASS that operates under the central government): “A Russian court called on Google to take over administrative liability under article 13.41 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for eliminating channels on the YouTube platform. “The court ordered the company to restore these channels.”
This case has already been in court for more than three years, at which time YouTube decided to block the Russian ultranationalist channel Tsargrad in 2020, in response to the US sanctions imposed against its owner.
Later, after the invasion of Ukraine, other channels on YouTube were blocked and Google was sued for this.
On the other hand, the FBI and Microsoft formed an alliance to intervene more than 100 sites Russian website they use for cyber espionage.
Likewise, Apple has removed VPN apps from its app store in the country, preventing Russian citizens from accessing services and media that have been censored by Putin’s government.
LUZ ANGELA DOMÍNGUEZ CORAL
Digital Scope Editorial