Pursuits
Netflix-Facebook Link Stalls as Franken Favors Bork Law: Tech
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U.S. Senator Al Franken has helped stymie a potentially lucrative partnership between Netflix Inc. and Facebook Inc. in a dispute with roots all the way back to Judge Robert Bork’s Supreme Court nomination.
In 1987, a newspaper published Bork’s video-store rentals during contentious hearings over the nominee. Even though it wasn’t very explosive material -- he’d rented “The Man Who Knew Too Much” -- Congress passed the Video Privacy Protection Act the next year to ensure that never happened again.