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What Do Borat And Google Have In Common?: Page 2 of 2

The fictitious character Borat, a satirical creation of the British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, may not appear to have much in common with the search giant Google. But Borat's fate -- to have his Web site taken offline on the...
January 23, 2006

The practice should be made illegal. There's not a great deal of difference between a site being forced offline by an authoritarian government or by sleazy business practices. So let's hope Congress or the FCC takes action, or else the commercial equivalent of Kazakh authoritarianism will come to the Web in the U.S.

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