Apparantly satire can be taken seriously.
Sasha Baron Cohen's battle with Kazakhstan over the use of www.borat.kz had made the State Department's annual human rights report, according to Reuters. Pissed that Borat was making fun of their country, Kazakhstan pulled Cohen's rights to use the .kz domain in Nov. 2005. This was cited in the report as an example of the Kazakhstan's "restrictions on freedom of speech and other abuses."
So for those scoring at home, yanking websites = bad; photographs of country bumpkins posing with naked prisoners of war = mezza mezza.
I can only hope high school chapters of Amnesty International will start staying after school to write letters on Borat's behalf...
Sasha Baron Cohen's battle with Kazakhstan over the use of www.borat.kz had made the State Department's annual human rights report, according to Reuters. Pissed that Borat was making fun of their country, Kazakhstan pulled Cohen's rights to use the .kz domain in Nov. 2005. This was cited in the report as an example of the Kazakhstan's "restrictions on freedom of speech and other abuses."
So for those scoring at home, yanking websites = bad; photographs of country bumpkins posing with naked prisoners of war = mezza mezza.
I can only hope high school chapters of Amnesty International will start staying after school to write letters on Borat's behalf...
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