Kazakhstan Shuts Down borat.kz. (No, they’re not backwards at all!)

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Apparently, Kazakhstan authorities want to prove how progressive and forward thinking they are by shutting down comeidan Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat website. The site, which had a .kz domain name, is gone. (See for yourself) I’m unfamiliar with the free speech rights in this former Soviet republic, but it’s obvious that they’ve allowed the silly jokes of one comedian to demonstrate how far they have to go as a country.

I imagine it is frustrating that Borat is the only representation of Kazakhstan life in Western media, but anybody watching Borat knows that the character isn’t real. Though like all good comedy it plays the pranks straight, the exaggerations tip it too far for anyone watching the final result to take it seriously. But the leaders of Kazakhstan have played completely into the joke. The foreign ministry of Kazakhstan even believes that Cohen/Borat is under “politcal orders” to demean the country.

Getting into fights with comedians is the worst thing the humorless can do. You’ll just look more foolish or worse, exactly like the caricature you were fighting against. Kazakhstan, stop playing Borat’s game, and move on.

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Posted by to author on 05/16  at  02:22 PM

Seems like you are so developed and smart in your chicken country

Posted by to the guy above on 07/28  at  03:19 PM

Hahahaha… don’t take it personally, the guy is saying that people in the West understand jokes, and such actions (by the government and you) just make people think that you take him seriously, which gives Borat real credibility… People should not be ashamed of being underdeveloped.  Look at the US, people there are overdeveloped, and in the Ali G show are shown to have no backbone or common reason and it’s not even a joke.

Just telling the truth.

Posted by dariga on 09/30  at  06:56 AM

did you ever try to know something about kazakhstan? not from silly ali’s jokes? if us people are so “overdeveloped” why don’t they know something about formal soviet country?

Posted by Aibek on 02/29  at  12:46 PM

Hey people stop talking about my country.. OKay?
That Borat’s jokes really stupid…and i hate that..

Posted by Assel on 01/26  at  06:58 AM

hey, people, you’re wrong condemning someone else’s country because of a stupid movie. In fact, life in Kazakhstan is not so, and has never been so ..... First of all, this movie was filmed not in Kazakhstan, in Second, people - the actors - not the Kazakhs, it is some Gypsies played the role. and of course, I saw a comment that you do not believe to our government, that Borat is not true, and that we should not be ashamed of our country. So, we not ashamed, we are proud of our country.
and .... If you consider yourself more clever than we are, why don’t you know what country is actually Kazakhstan?? I think you do not know about Kazakhstan, not because of that our country is not familiar in Europe, because you don’t have any interest to know the conditions in which live other countries ....

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