Post: "Russia Fines Google, Telegram, and Microsoft Over Content Takedown Refusals"
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[comment u/Deep-Owl-1890] What's more interesting is what these companies are actually doing instead of paying: basically nothing, and R
“Have we reached a googol dollars yet?”
u/Aware-Investment-11524 points · Aug 27, 2026View
“$130k tacked onto a debt already north of 20 billion rubles is the number that puts this in perspective, Google's not even close to paying what it already owes, so this latest round isn't really "enforcement" in any functional sense, it's the court restating its position for the record. What's more interesting is what these companies are actually doing instead of paying: basically nothing, and R”
u/Deep-Owl-189013 points · Aug 27, 2026View
“Aren’t they banned in fascist ruSSia?”
u/DoriN19874 points · Aug 28, 2026View
“sh!t vs pi$$ battle”
u/ScureScar4 points · Aug 27, 2026View
“Get fucked “Ads by google”. This article embeds a large ad into this when I open. So I can only see a few lines only of this article. I don’t gets on anything, but suddenly on this article there’s an obtrusive ad.”
u/IrishUpYourCoffee1 points · Aug 30, 2026View
What this signalsUser posts often show product pain before it reaches reviews or churn.
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