Hey Yahoo, When Does a Joke Become Tasteless?

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.