To put that into perspective, the World Bank estimates global GDP as around $100 trillion, which is peanuts compared to the prospective fine.

 The amount compounds weekly as Google continues to disregard the ruling so pretty soon all those zero’s are going to eclipse the sun and there is no way that Google will ever pay that fine.

The bizarre amount has been calculated after a four-year court case that started after YouTube banned the ultra-nationalist Russian channel Tsargrad in 2020 in response to the US sanctions imposed against its owner.

Following Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine in 2022 more channels were added to the banned list and 17 stations are now suing the Chocolate Factory, including Zvezda (a TV channel owned by Putin's Ministry of Defence), according to local media.

"Google was called by a Russian court to administrative liability under Art. 13.41 of the Administrative Offenses Code for removing channels on the YouTube platform.

The court ordered the company to restore these channels," lawyer Ivan Morozov told state media outlet TASS.

The court imposed a fine of 100 thousand rubles ($1,025) per day, with the total fine doubling every week. Owing to compound interest Google is now on the hook for an insane amount of money, or what the judge on Monday called "a case in which there are many, many zeros" although he might have been talking about the yes men in Putin’s legal system.