> 3 - Why do I, as a UK resident, have to provide money so that someone in Vietnam can access our state news? If you access BBC News from outside the UK you'll

> 3 - Why do I, as a UK resident, have to provide money so that someone in Vietnam can access our state news? If you access BBC News from outside the UK you'll notice that it has advertising. I don't know how much of the cost of international news this offsets, but it will help. But the more important answer is that everyone benefits if accurate and unbiased news is available to all. The cost of running an onion site is negligible. The cost of international news (and the World Service etc.) is not, but is definitely worth it (and as pointed out elsewhere, not actually paid for by the licence fee).