So having a wander around that nice free system called the internet I came across this:-
No long-term future for BBC licence fee, MPs say - BBC News
O.K. it's a year old however what peaked my interest was a little paragraph
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The best alternative to the licence fee, the report concluded, would be a compulsory broadcasting levy paid by all households, regardless of whether they watch TV, or how they watch.
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So, when they eventually get rid of the T.V. licence they intend to tax
every household,
regardless of whether they watch TV, or how they watch.
Isn't this putting a tax on the internet? Isn't this an unfair tax on anyone that not only doesn't watch T.V. but doesn't use the internet?
At the moment the internet is free to use everywhere, shouldn't it remain that way?
Along similar lines:-
BBC iPlayer loophole to be closed - but you can still legally watch TV and not pay the TV Licence fee
Strange isn't it? Over the years the BBC developed an excellent website at the cost of whom? Licence fee payers, now they want us to stop using it as a free service and start paying for it, maybe they shouldn't have used the licence fee to develop it in the first place?