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The idea is to make the poor and working classes pay for it, being regressive everyone pays the same, taxes are progressive, the more you earn the more you pay
by cortic 6y ago
The idea is to make the poor and working classes pay for it, being regressive everyone pays the same, taxes are progressive, the more you earn the more you pay.
Government set the licence fee and legislation around it every 5 or 6 years. The last renewal put government appointed editors into the BBC in exchange for a change in Law from 'watch live BBC channels = you have to pay' to 'watch live non-BBC channels = you have to pay'. So now, even if you are just watching BBC competitors,you have to pay the BBC.. what a great business model.
- andrewaylett 6y agoIt has always been the case that watching any broadcast TV as it's broadcast requires a license. Now it's also the case that you need a license to use BBC's streaming platform, iPlayer, to watch video on demand. Note that "live" isn't the qualifier -- so long as you're not watching a feed of something that's being broadcast you're OK.