- Tue Dec 19, 2017 3:08 pm
#528690
I've come across a Facebook group called "Active Resistance to the TV Licence", which I'm sorry to say is liked by my sister and my nephew.
https://www.facebook.com/pg/activeresis ... e_internal
As the name suggests, it seems to be dedicated to arguing that the TV licence, which funds our national broadcaster, is unfair, unjust, and actually illegal, by the way (there seems to be a great deal of pseudo-legalistic claptrap on there along the lines of the "common law" nonsense that you see arguing that birth certificates are not legal and you don't have to obey any laws you don't like).
There's also a bit of Beeb-bashing that re-cycles allegations of bias in the BBC's news reporting ( as espoused by the Daily Mail, of course).
But apart from that, it's quite hard to see any reasoned, logical argument against the TV licence.
The main argument seems to be that if you only watch Netflix (aye, right) then you should not be required to pay the annual TV licence fee.
Nobody seems to value the unique qualities of the BBC, or the fantastic services it delivers. They really do seem to want a world in which the BBC and all that is great about it is dead, and instead seek to be happy in a world where they pay through the nose to Murdoch and other private commercial organisations for the guff that is for the most part put out by Netflix, Google, Amazon, Sky, and so on.
Perhaps the TV licence fee does need a bit of a re-think in a world where multiple providers of broadcasting increasingly compete for viewers and listeners, but if we were to follow the logic of these clots I'd want an absolutely fucking cast-iron way of ensuring that the twats that swear blind that they only watch Netflix really do only watch Netflix, and keeping access to the BBC completely away from them.
My anger is showing, perhaps. What does the team think?
https://www.facebook.com/pg/activeresis ... e_internal
As the name suggests, it seems to be dedicated to arguing that the TV licence, which funds our national broadcaster, is unfair, unjust, and actually illegal, by the way (there seems to be a great deal of pseudo-legalistic claptrap on there along the lines of the "common law" nonsense that you see arguing that birth certificates are not legal and you don't have to obey any laws you don't like).
There's also a bit of Beeb-bashing that re-cycles allegations of bias in the BBC's news reporting ( as espoused by the Daily Mail, of course).
But apart from that, it's quite hard to see any reasoned, logical argument against the TV licence.
The main argument seems to be that if you only watch Netflix (aye, right) then you should not be required to pay the annual TV licence fee.
Nobody seems to value the unique qualities of the BBC, or the fantastic services it delivers. They really do seem to want a world in which the BBC and all that is great about it is dead, and instead seek to be happy in a world where they pay through the nose to Murdoch and other private commercial organisations for the guff that is for the most part put out by Netflix, Google, Amazon, Sky, and so on.
Perhaps the TV licence fee does need a bit of a re-think in a world where multiple providers of broadcasting increasingly compete for viewers and listeners, but if we were to follow the logic of these clots I'd want an absolutely fucking cast-iron way of ensuring that the twats that swear blind that they only watch Netflix really do only watch Netflix, and keeping access to the BBC completely away from them.
My anger is showing, perhaps. What does the team think?
"The opportunity to serve our country. That is all we ask." John Smith, Leader of the Labour Party, 10 May 1994.