Google has been fined by Russian courts as a result of Russian channels becoming blocked on YouTube. The fine is so great that it is estimated to be greater than the world's total GDP, which is said to be estimated at $110 trillion by the International Monetary Fund. Google owns YouTube; the stock market value at this time is around $2.16 trillion. So the Russian court is asking for far above what Google has the capacity to pay. The reasoning behind the debt is because of an ongoing payment that Google has not paid, and if Google continues to not pay within nine months, the debt will begin to double every day. The reason behind the Russian court for orchestrating this is because Google has chosen not to restore YouTube accounts that belonged to 17 Russian TV channels. A judge stated that the fine contains “many, many zeros,” and Google rebutted that they will return these channels back to the Russian market if the court reduces the fine.
