- ID
- 2190109
- Banca
- NUCEPE
- Órgão
- Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
- Ano
- 2016
- Provas
- Disciplina
- Inglês
- Assuntos
Read text 2 and answer the question according to it.
TEXT 2
GOOGLE HAS REFUSED GOVERNMENT
DEMANDS TO TAKE DOWN A
GAY MUSIC VIDEO IN KENYA
Kenya’s attempt to stop people from
watching a music video celebrating gay
couples is backfiring. Three weeks after
trying to ban a local rap artist’s remake of
Same Love, (1)__________ Macklemore
and Ryan Lewis, Google Kenya has refused
to pull the video from YouTube, where it has
now been viewed (2)____________ 140,000
times. Kenyan regulators banned the video
in late February, claiming that the content
threatens to turn the country
(3)___________ “Sodom and Gomorrah”
and declaring that anyone caught distributing
it would be punished. But the agency that
banned it also retweeted a link to it—which
ended up bringing more attention to Kenya’s
nascent gay rights campaign. (…)
Source: http://qz.com/638461/google-hasrefused-government-demands-to-take-downa-gay-music-video-in-kenya
(adapted).
Access: March 22nd, 2016.
In the passage, the word backfiring is a
synonym with