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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!oasys!barnum
  2. From: barnum@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Jennifer Barnum)
  3. Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
  4. Subject: Re: (Unsolicited) advice against Blockbuster
  5. Message-ID: <28854@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
  6. Date: 22 Dec 92 12:52:52 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec20.221339.17333@news.cs.brandeis.edu> <1992Dec21.193237.488@bradley.bradley.edu>
  8. Reply-To: barnum@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Jennifer Barnum)
  9. Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD
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  12. In rec.arts.movies, guru@camelot.bradley.edu (Jerry Whelan) writes:
  13. >In article <1h4vi9INNhbj@morgause.cs.purdue.edu> gritter@cs.purdue.edu (Carl Gr
  14. >itter) writes:
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  16. >-} I believe Blockbuster doesn't carry NC-17 films because of "pressure" by
  17. >-} conservatives to get rid of "pornographic" films.
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  19. >        According to rumor from friends who refuse to patronize BB,
  20. >BB is a conservative dominated corporation.  Just as Dominoes contributes
  21. >portions of its pizza profits to the Right-To-Life crowd, so does BB.
  22. >Additional conservative anti-civil liberties organizations (PMRC type
  23. >stuff) are suppossedly also supported by a portion of BB profits.
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  26. Thanks for the tip.  Now I know that Blockbuster is the place to go!!
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