Clean Flicks, a web-based video rental service, promises "movies you can trust." They can promise this because they once edited out all the dirty bits before shipping the DVDs off to you and yours (or your right wing NeoCon cousin in Alabama), and after they were prohibited from editing films, they now offer a database of purely family-friendly movies. But how family friendly are the people behind the business?
Until a copyright infringement ruling (we think), there was also a company called Flix Club that offered similar videos. Recently, the founder of Flix Club was arrested and charged with sexual abuse of a minor. Somehow misinformation quickly spread the news that he was the founder of Clean Flix, and not Flix Club. Now Clean Flix is scrambling to save it's once squeaky clean image, claiming to have no relationship with the founder of Flix Club.
Apparently, though, the two companies do have some sort of relationship (uncovered by Christianity Today), but it's a little too confusing and sordid for us to try to get right here. And if you're interested in learning more about it, you should go here.
(Thanks, Frank!)