The people of Kazakhstan are getting famously tired of Sacha Baron Cohen’s Kazakh creation Borat, especially after Borat called Madonna a transvestite at the MTV Europe awards.
So the people of Kazakhstan have done the only thing they felt that they could – they’ve gone and nudged the official Borat website off the Internet.
Borat, a character of Ali G (DVDs) creator Sacha Baron Cohen, has long
incurred the wrath of Kazakhstan. Borat’s stories of cow-punching,
prostitution and piss-drinking have riled the Kazakh government, but
their annoyance towards Borat turned into full-on anger at the MTV
Europe Awards earlier in the year, when Borat was taken to Lisbon in a
shonky ‘Air Kazakh’ plane driven by a one-eyed man drinking vodka.
At the time, the foreign ministry for Kazakhstan considered taking
legal action
against Sacha Baron Cohen for ridiculing the citizens of Kazakhstan.
All went quiet for a while, until this message was posted on the
official – Kazakhstan-registered – Borat website:
"I like to state I have no connection with Mr. Cohen and fully support
my government’s decision to sue this Jew. Since the 2003 reforms, Kazakhstan is as civilised as any other
country in the world. Women can now travel on inside of bus,
homosexuals no longer have to wear blue hats and age of consent has
been raised to 8 years old. Please, captain of industry, I invite you to come to
Kazakhstan, where we have incredible natural resources, hard-working
labour and some of the cleanest prostitutes in all of central Asia.
Goodbye."
So the Kazakhstan government kicked the Borat website off the Internet. Nurlan Isin, President of the Association of Kazakh IT Companies said:
"We’ve done this so he can’t badmouth Kazakhstan under the .kz domain name. He can go and do whatever he wants at other domains."
Apparently, Borat’s website broke new rules for Kazakhstan-registered websites, by telling jokes about Kazakhstan registering false names for the site’s administrators.
So the Kazakhstan government threatened to sue Borat after he was on TV and kicked Borat’s website off the Internet. Let’s see what happens when the Borat movie gets released next year.
Read more:
Kazakhstan strips Borat of site – E! Online
[story by Stuart Heritage]
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