Hey Yahoo, When Does a Joke Become Tasteless?
Today Yahoo! News’s official Twitter feed felt the wrath of an easily offended internet.
The company debuted the #HashOut tag to promote their upcoming “social media talk show” of the same name with a message making light of the recent two-year jail sentence handed down to Russian anti-government punk bad Pussy Riot. Yahoo! tweeted:
“Last week, a Moscow judge sentenced a punk band to two years in prison. What musical act would you send to lockup, and why?”
We guess we can see why they thought this one would work: Everybody has opinions about music, everybody read something about Pussy Riot last week, and everybody likes to be interactive.
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