• @Ciderpunk
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    412 days ago

    This is the government equivalent of “you owe me a bajillion dollars!” An unserious fine from an unserious government.

  • @SomeGuy69
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    81 day ago

    Someone played too much Adventure Capitalist.

  • @[email protected]
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    31 day ago

    Its from a fine that doubles every day. There’s no judge literally demanding google pay this amount of money. Makes a good headline, though.

    FTA: “The company’s Russian subsidiary declared bankruptcy in 2022”. Its just been doubling the whole time.

      • @Maalus
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        21 day ago

        It is how things should be, although for valid reasons, not “the banned our accounts, we mad, grrrrr”. The alternative is companies getting a “fine” that’s a drop in the bucket and just continuing how they did previously. If the company does shitty things and gets banned because they can’t pay a huge fine because of GDPR for instance, then good riddance.

      • LukácsFan1917
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        11 day ago

        If you don’t think giving a tech monopoly multiple life sentences is cool get out of my mentions.

    • The Snark Urge
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      51 day ago

      There it is, the mildest tech take on the fediverse

        • The Snark Urge
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          11 day ago

          Oo, topical and feisty. No I remember being a twentysomething, say it louder for the cheap seats etc

    • atro_city
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      21 day ago

      If Russia wanted to be the good guy, they’d hack Google and opensource all the code.