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After fining Google more money than exists on Earth, Russia demands so little from EA it feels like a weird joke

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(Image credit: Alexey Nikolsky via Getty / EA) Cast your mind back to October 2024 and you may remember the time when Russia fined Google a website-breaking amount of money . Like grains of rice on a chessboard, a fine Russia levied against Google for blocking some pro-Kremlin channels had compounded to the point that Google 'owed' the country ₽2 undecillion . That's a two followed by 36 zeroes. That amount was later capped at a more generous ₽91.5 quintillion but, either way, it's more money than there is on Earth. Which I suspect, as a tactic, was not much of a winner, as Russian courts have turned around and asked for a much more payable fine from EA, Take-Two, Battlestate, and NetEase (via Kommersant ) for failing to localise the data of Russian gamers on domestic servers.…

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