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- From: guru@camelot.bradley.edu (Jerry Whelan)
- Subject: Re: (Unsolicited) advice against Blockbuster
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.193237.488@bradley.bradley.edu>
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- Organization: The Smelly Ditch
- References: <1992Dec20.221339.17333@news.cs.brandeis.edu> <1992Dec21.005238.20089@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <1h4vi9INNhbj@morgause.cs.purdue.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 19:32:37 GMT
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- In article <1h4vi9INNhbj@morgause.cs.purdue.edu> gritter@cs.purdue.edu (Carl Gritter) writes:
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- -} I believe Blockbuster doesn't carry NC-17 films because of "pressure" by
- -} conservatives to get rid of "pornographic" films.
-
- According to rumor from friends who refuse to patronize BB,
- BB is a conservative dominated corporation. Just as Dominoes contributes
- portions of its pizza profits to the Right-To-Life crowd, so does BB.
- Additional conservative anti-civil liberties organizations (PMRC type
- stuff) are suppossedly also supported by a portion of BB profits.
- From talking to a shift manager at a local BB, it seems as if
- BB is a very fascist sort of business in terms of controlling what is on the
- shelves, where it is on the shelves and such. He also seemed awfully
- paranoid about me sending in a customer complaint card about how stupid
- the organization of the videos are. He seemed to think that, such a
- complaint (and video organization is a corporate policy) would get him
- in some trouble...
- I believe they require drug testing of employees (which is pretty
- funny I think, sure wouldn't want one of those 17 year olds being so
- stoned he fast-forwards the tape instead of rewinding it before putting
- it back on the shelf, someone might get killed that way...).
-
- If anyone has some real evidence as to what BB does with its
- profits, I'd like to hear it.
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