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December 13th, 2005

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Kaz shuts down Borat.kz

Well, another chapter in the saga of Sacha Baron Cohen vs. Kazakhstan. For background see:

  1. Kazakhstan’s 6th most famous man
  2. Borat doomed to a gulag?
  3. Borat speaks!
  4. Kazakhstan replies

The latest move has been for Kazakhstan to pull the plug on Borat’s website which sports a .kz domain name. That’s right, www.borat.kz no longer exists. The President of the Association of Kazakh IT Companies told Reuters that borat.kz had broken “new” rules, and that the admins had registered under false names. Hmmm… and who says Central Asia has had problems throwing off its Soviet history?

Anyways, I am sure this will not go unchallenged and expect Borat’s site to be back up in .com or something similiar soon with some sort of crazy rebuttal. Weeeee! Isn’t freedom of speech fun!

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Registan.net :: Central Asia News
December 13, 2005
7:36 pm
Kazakhstan Lacks Sense of Humor

Monday Morning calls Nazarbaev “enlightened” (not exactly the word I’d use… and h/t to Katy). Enlightenment apparently does not include having a sense of humor or being above it all as it seemed earlier.

Kazakhstan has shut ...
Chirol
December 13, 2005
7:55 pm
It's amazing to me how the Kazakhs keep dragging this on and making themselves look worse each time. They're doing more to keep the joke alive than Borat.
Chief Wiggum
December 13, 2005
9:23 pm
From the Yahoo News website:

_I like to state I have no connection with Mr. Cohen and fully support my government's decision to sue this Jew," Borat recently proclaimed on his official Website, www.borat.kz._

_He went on to commend his nation's efforts towards civilized reform._

_"Since the 2003 reforms, Kazakhstan is as civilized 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 labor and some of the cleanest prostitutes in all of central Asia. Goodbye."_

http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20051213/en_celeb_eo/17962
devolute.net » Blog Archive » Obligatory Borat Post
November 14, 2006
10:33 pm
[...] So, Borat, Borat, Borat, bloody Borat. I’ve not seen it yet, but I have no doubt that when I do, I’ll laugh. Two hours of easily tricking idiots into displaying their inherent small-mindedness does sound like quite a giggle. My token Borat mention (one does rather feel that one must fit in with the rest of the ‘blogosphere’ and refer to ‘Borat’ at least once) concerns this news item from the Sydney Morning Herald. Read it and then imagine the title is “Shock as actors character found to be an act!”.  Wait, Mr. Cohen doesn’t really act like Borat/Ali G?  Incredible news.  Too many Ben Stiller films if you ask me. Idiots. Or maybe, like Sacha Baron Choen, they’re doing something subtle and ingenious and I’m just not getting it. hmmm…. [...]
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