Reporting someone about having no TV LIcence?

You really don’t know that, you’ve just made your own shit up.

I’m wondering if I should cancel my TVL now!

I was told when I didn’t pay it, that if I had any devices that could access BBCiplayer (even if I didn’t watch it or have the app downloaded?) I would have to pay.

Its certainly outdated and perhaps the BBC should use advertising and sponsorship to fund themselves or lock it down and offer a pay to view subscription like every other tv platform.

No it didn't. At all.

it demonstrated that women are disproportionately effected, it didn't demonstrate that women are targeted.

Do you not understand how society works?

Do you not realise correlation is very different to causation?.

And what targeted means?

And what sexism means.

Please, please explain how you think what you said provides evidence that women are targeted by TV licencing prosecutions and how that is evidence of sexism because it isn't.

And I didn't claim that the BBC or the government would solve it or be particularly invested in doing so, just that they identified it was a complex issue which really isn't about what you're saying which is a nonsense idea that the BBC licencing system is deliberately targeting women because of sexism against women

That's just daft and apparently that's what you think?

But please provide me with evidence that the TV licencing system is targeting women because it isn't.

It doesn't GAF about who is fined, they just care about the money.

Weell the inspector was lying to you ,why did you engage with them?

@bellezarara

its a HMO very very few will be female only as the owners let the rooms out individually. Unconcerned with what the tenants would like.

its ridiculous that some people turn everything into sexism.

Women are already disproportionately targeted for legal action for license fee evasion, don’t add to the sexism

that's a pile of nonsense.

The whole bloody TV licensing enforcement sounds like a shambles anyway regardless of whether it’s sex discriminatory.

Lots of people on here have found loopholes to avoid it or simply cancel it because they don’t watch BBC or BBCiplayer.

I was told by an inspector that if I had any device that could access the internet in my home then I could potentially be watching BBC streamed programmes. (?)

I was forced to pay yet other people are allowed to cancel their licences? Where’s the continuity or fair treatment?

The whole archaic idea of a license for a TV should have been scrapped years ago.

It can’t be regulated or policed with any accuracy clearly!

At the moment I am living in an HMO. I have lived here for coming up to three years now.
I have a licence. However I have noticed that two of the residents within the household have been receiving letters from TV LIcensing for quite a long time now.
There are six of us all together living here. I think that I am the only one who is licensed though?
Would I be right in reporting just these two individuals, do you think, or should I just simply ignore this??
Any feedback would be really very helpful. Thank you.

The example I gave you shows how women are targeted.

HTH.

And if you think the government and the BBC are going to address it then you’re living in cloud cuckoo land, love.

@bellezarara

tgats ONE case. That doesn't make it women being disproportionately targeted.

@bellezarara

its a HMO very very few will be female only as the owners let the rooms out individually. Unconcerned with what the tenants would like.

its ridiculous that some people turn everything into sexism.

Women are already disproportionately targeted for legal action for license fee evasion, don’t add to the sexism

that's a pile of nonsense.

Yes it is

“Perhaps most shockingly, TV licensing offences disproportionately involve women, who in 2019 made up a whopping 74% of people convicted of non-payment in the UK – though only 49% of licence holders are women.

Take Amina. APPEAL, the legal charity I work for, represented Amina in her TV licensing case. She was deeply anxious after being threatened with prosecution in 2019. Amina and her husband were moving cities while she was heavily pregnant and in and out of hospital. Paying the TV licence at their new property slipped their minds.
When a TV licence officer came to the front door, she explained that her husband was in charge of arranging the payment. Her husband even spoke over the phone to the officer while he was on the doorstep to confirm this, and he paid for a new licence under his name immediately. A few weeks later Amina received a letter saying she was being prosecuted for watching TV without a valid licence. Despite her husband having paid, the officer had opened a new licence fee account in Amina’s name without consulting her.”

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/why-are-women-being-disproportionately-penalised-tv-license-non-payment/

Women often live with women. Only OP knows, who has long since gone.

Why so aggressive?

It’s possible women are more likely to feel pressured by a TV licensing inspector to allow them into their home and accept a penalty than men?

As the pp above says- In their case they flatly refused to let an inspector in and were assertive enough to argue that they were not watching live TV- thus weren’t penalised.

Women are more conditioned (?) to be agreeable and simply accept a penalty perhaps.

When I had a TVL guy visit my home I felt quite intimidated and he refused to listen to my reasons for not having a license.