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Disturbing? In what sense? Other news sources are paywalled and UK citizens have to pay in tax.
by Closi 3mo ago
Disturbing? In what sense? Other news sources are paywalled and UK citizens have to pay in tax.
- UnfitFootprint 3mo agoWait what? Is the NYT not paywalled somewhere?
- Arainach 3mo agoI'm not seeing this particular paywall, but disturbing in that the BBC is so awful and stupid at this, presumably. For many years I would have gladly paid the BBC $20/mo for some way to legally watch Top Gear and Doctor Who. That's it, just two shows and I'll give you more than I give Netflix. They never offered a single legal mechanism available to US citizens, so, well.....don't admit to crimes on the internet and all that.
- Steve16384 3mo agoHave you tried BritBox? It seems to show Doctor Who, but ironically, being in the UK I'm unable to access their site to see specific details.
- mrkwse 3mo agoIt was offered much later than iPlayer was for the UK, but to claim they 'never' had an option for US audiences is false when they have had Britbox for almost 10 years
- Arainach 3mo agoNot only was Britbox launched long after iPlayer and after I stopped watching both of the shows I mentioned (in fact, Top Gear in its 2002 incarnation was functionally off the air before Britbox launched), but the BBC sold their streaming rights to those two programs such that their modern incarnations were never, so far as I'm aware, available on Britbox.
- potatoproduct 3mo agoAn increasing proportion of UK citizens are deciding not to pay for a TV licence that funds the BBC as consumption patterns have changed. The BBC will be a zombie in 10 years unless they stop being emotionally driven and sort out their funding.
- inigyou 3mo agoGood. The BBC is no longer the shining beacon of objective reporting it once was. Let it die and be replaced by something better.
- badgersnake 3mo agoIf everybody thinks you’re biased, you’re probably not biased at all.
- inigyou 3mo agoLook at how the BBC reports on the Middle East and tell me you agree with it.
- n4r9 3mo agoThat doesn't address anything unless you stake out and back up your position. Pro-Palestine and pro-Israel advocates both accuse the BBC of bias towards the other side.
- inigyou 3mo agoObjectively, the BBC downplays what the USA and Israel do over there and doesn't downplay what Hamas and Iran do over there.
- GJim 3mo agoPresumably you get your news content from Rupert Murdoch, the Daily Mail and UK News?
- graemep 3mo agoThe annoying thing about the BBC paywall is that it is implemented by using different domains, so (for example here) people in the UK go to bbc.com instead of bbc.co.uk
- tikkabhuna 3mo agoDo you have that the wrong way round? In the UK, you go to bbc.co.uk (and bbc.com redirects to bbc.co.uk). From memory, in the US you get pushed to bbc.com.
- graemep 3mo agoI mean that, for example the link here is to bbc.com, and it does not recirect me to bbc.co.uk
- Steve16384 3mo agoIt redirects me fine.
- graemep 3mo agoI had JS off. If I turn JS on it redirects me. Not "fine" though as it loads the page on bbc.com and then redirects which is slow and annoying.