A Moscow court fined Apple 400,000 roubles ($4,274) on Thursday for not deleting “inaccurate” content about what Russia calls a “special military operation” in Ukraine on apps and podcasts, Russian news agencies reported.

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      They’re a nation state, asking for like… 4 br college apt rent. From a trillion dollar company.

      That’s like me asking you for a spoonful of white rice from your Asian takeout order for defamation.

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      Even if it is a minute amount of money, I’d hope they tell them to stuff it. Or at least drag it through so many appeals to make the issue meaningless

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        It’s unenforceable outside of Russia, as long as Apple doesn’t care to do business inside Russia, I don’t see why they’d even acknowledge the fine.