Days after publication, the newsreader is in hospital with mental health issues and the paper is rapidly backtracking

  • theinspectorst@kbin.socialOP
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    1 year ago

    Actually you’re not. There is no requirement for everyone to have a TV licence. Plenty of people choose not to watch or record live TV or BBC iPlayer and therefore don’t need to pay the licence fee.

    Your argument would apply better to one of the UK’s 5.8 million public sector workers, whose wages you are forced to pay for through taxation, and which illustrates how absurd it is for you to think you should have an individual veto on the personal conduct of each one of them.

    • Ace_of_spades@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I can’t watch live TV without a TV license. Even if I don’t watch the BBC, I have to pay for it. If Sky started hiring sexual predators, I could stop watching and paying for Sky. I can’t with the BBC unless I want to stop all broardcast television.

        • Ace_of_spades@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          I can stop watching it. I still need a TV license if I want to watch Dave, QVC or even Sky. Even if I stop watching the BBC.

          • MidgePhoto@photog.social
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            1 year ago

            @Ace_of_spades
            In various Wireless Telegraphy Acts for the UK the licencing of reception and transmission, control of permitted bands, for both, and exceptionally reception or transmission of certain signals in certain bands has been regulated since shortly after it became feasible.

            There are reasons.

            However the BBC thing is a small part of it.

          • Flax
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            Dave is owned by the BBC pretty sure