wellsy 0 Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 THE authorities in Kazakhstan, angered by a British comedian's satirical portrayal of a boorish, sexist and racist Kazakh television reporter, have pulled the plug on his alter ego's website. Sacha Baron Cohen plays Borat in his Da Ali G Show and last month he used the character's website www.borat.kz to respond sarcastically to legal threats from the Central Asian state's Foreign Ministry. A government-appointed organisation regulating websites that end in the .kz domain name for Kazakhstan confirmed it had suspended Cohen's site. "We've done this so he can't badmouth Kazakhstan under the .kz domain name," said Nurlan Isin, President of the Association of Kazakh IT Companies. "He can go and do whatever he wants at other domains." Isin said the borat.kz website had broken new rules on all .kz sites maintaining two computer servers in Kazakhstan and had registered false names for its administrators. Cohen, as Borat, hosted the MTV Europe Music Awards in Lisbon last month and described shooting dogs for fun and said his wife could not leave Kazakhstan as she was a woman. Afterwards, Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry said it could not rule out that he was under "political orders" to denigrate Kazakhstan's name and threatened to sue him. Cohen, who is Jewish, responded to the legal threats on the www.borat.kz site in character, saying: "I have no connection to Mr Cohen and fully support my government's position to sue this Jew." In typical vein, he went on: "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." Borat is one of several outrageous characters devised by Cohen in his television shows. He shot to fame as Ali G, who mocks British street gang culture, and also plays Bruno, a gay Austrian fashion show presenter. Borat is great bloke and should be allowed to continue to run his website! Anyone been to Kazakhstan? Whats it really like? All i can picture is poor people that speak like Borat and have mo's alongside 'clean' prostitutes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyluke 2 Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 THE authorities in Kazakhstan, angered by a British comedian's satirical portrayal of a boorish, sexist and racist Kazakh television reporter, have pulled the plug on his alter ego's website.Sacha Baron Cohen plays Borat in his Da Ali G Show and last month he used the character's website www.borat.kz to respond sarcastically to legal threats from the Central Asian state's Foreign Ministry. A government-appointed organisation regulating websites that end in the .kz domain name for Kazakhstan confirmed it had suspended Cohen's site. "We've done this so he can't badmouth Kazakhstan under the .kz domain name," said Nurlan Isin, President of the Association of Kazakh IT Companies. "He can go and do whatever he wants at other domains." Isin said the borat.kz website had broken new rules on all .kz sites maintaining two computer servers in Kazakhstan and had registered false names for its administrators. Cohen, as Borat, hosted the MTV Europe Music Awards in Lisbon last month and described shooting dogs for fun and said his wife could not leave Kazakhstan as she was a woman. Afterwards, Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry said it could not rule out that he was under "political orders" to denigrate Kazakhstan's name and threatened to sue him. Cohen, who is Jewish, responded to the legal threats on the www.borat.kz site in character, saying: "I have no connection to Mr Cohen and fully support my government's position to sue this Jew." In typical vein, he went on: "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." Borat is one of several outrageous characters devised by Cohen in his television shows. He shot to fame as Ali G, who mocks British street gang culture, and also plays Bruno, a gay Austrian fashion show presenter. Borat is great bloke and should be allowed to continue to run his website! Anyone been to Kazakhstan? Whats it really like? All i can picture is poor people that speak like Borat and have mo's alongside 'clean' prostitutes... 67432[/snapback] I think your reply shows exactly why they pulled it. I do find Borat funny, but he does give Kazakhstan a rather bad name. The Khazak authorities have every right to pull his site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adios 717 Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 I think your reply shows exactly why they pulled it. I do find Borat funny, but he does give Kazakhstan a rather bad name. The Khazak authorities have every right to pull his site. 67503[/snapback] Now we just think they're humourless bigots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muthaf***in toon lover 0 Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 I think your reply shows exactly why they pulled it. I do find Borat funny, but he does give Kazakhstan a rather bad name. The Khazak authorities have every right to pull his site. 67503[/snapback] Now we just think they're humourless bigots. 67505[/snapback] I don't imagine that the british government would be happy to let someone pretending to be british and expressing racialist views operate from a .gov site either mind. They are not stopping him putting a website out, just blocking him using a kazakh site. Mind you they are humourless bigots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adios 717 Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 I don't imagine that the british government would be happy to let someone pretending to be british and expressing racialist views operate from a .gov site either mind. They are not stopping him putting a website out, just blocking him using a kazakh site. Mind you they are humourless bigots 67525[/snapback] The British Government? Outrageous thing to say, treasonous! I suppose you're one of these sandal-hugging communists? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob W 0 Posted December 15, 2005 Share Posted December 15, 2005 "Anyone been to Kazakhstan? Whats it really like? All i can picture is poor people that speak like Borat and have mo's alongside 'clean' prostitutes..." I haven't but a couple of my workmates have - its mainly a flat plain about the size of Europe. Colder than shit in the winter and hot and dusty in the summer. Natives either look like Borat or have chinese type faces. generally friendly. Lots of oil and gas money all of which is stolen by the Govt and the mafia (difficult to tell the difference) N part of country was where the Russians tested all their A bombs - some places should be avoided. Extreme SE of the country around ALma Aty is quite nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catmag 337 Posted December 15, 2005 Share Posted December 15, 2005 "Anyone been to Kazakhstan? Whats it really like? All i can picture is poor people that speak like Borat and have mo's alongside 'clean' prostitutes..." I haven't ........ 68124[/snapback] Rob, I'm disappointed in you.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob W 0 Posted December 15, 2005 Share Posted December 15, 2005 "Anyone been to Kazakhstan? Whats it really like? All i can picture is poor people that speak like Borat and have mo's alongside 'clean' prostitutes..." I haven't ........ 68124[/snapback] Rob, I'm disappointed in you.... 68128[/snapback] nearly got there this year in fact but the local Goblins smelt $$$$ and took over all the assets of the outfit I was working for - at least the UK guys got paid - but since they didn't fancy having to check their cars every time they drove them they didn't negotiate too hard................................. I'm hoping I'll get to Baku in the New year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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