TV licensing is so stupid, especially on a technological/enforcement level. Basically relies on folk memories of non-existent detector vans, wildly imprecise threatening letters like this, and random prosecutions of low income stay at home mums who answer doorstep questions honestly.
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TV Licensing sent a legal warning after I logged on to iPlayer at a friend’s house
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That's why the people who don't think the BBC should exist are such big fans of the current licence and enforcement model.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22We%27re_being_pressured_into_sex_by_some_trans_women%22
Makes enforcement a lot simpler and less ambiguous
So following that model makes a lot more sense.
Well there you are, buses pretty much explicitly covered. And yes, you can use your license on your phone at a separate address until you plug it in 🤣
Years back I had a new telly delivered from Amazon to my small biz office. Took home. For years afterwards got threatening letters at work that they knew we had a TV there, imprisonment, fines etc etc. 🙄
I think it's more likely part of how government seems to be able to team up with businesses. During the war on terror era there was something called Project Argus which resulted in lot of security guards harassing photographers.
They just wouldn’t stop the threats no matter how much I explained I’d just had it delivered to my work, but took it home where I have a license
I had a massive run in with them long ago around the introduction of free licences for over 75s. Entertainingly it turned out that some extremely senior people in the BBC didn't understand their own
And the same goes for most of what's on YouTube outside YouTube TV (which you can't get here anyway).
If it's some small independent stream then that wouldn't fall under it.
All a bit vague and who is policing it!
Surely if the government wants a propaganda service it can be smaller and paid for by taxation?
Scientist here, and flat earther here for balance and treated each of their opinions as having the same value.
Lots of services delivered privately are supported or enabled, indirectly or tangentially, by the BBC.
I listen to BBC radio, I actively dislike the TV and online services and I dislike the BBC's politics, but the country (and beyond) are richer for having the BBC.
And yes, there isn’t a single person in the UK that doesn’t benefit in some way from BBC. So a small household levy v good approach.
The government already sets the the BBCs income through the license fee so arguments about gov control of the BBC are moot.
General taxation is also progressive as poorer people are less able to afford the fee.
'Everyone' pays, but the amount they pay varies ?
Of course Council Tax Bands are wildly out of date, but this existing Licence fee 'Poll Tax' is inherently unfair.
Certainly not up to the challenge of connecting domestic politics to international shifts, which the times call for.
Mostly deliberately dances to a 'tabloid' agenda.