theworldistoosmall you missed out 'live,' as in 'You need a license if you watch any channel live, or iplayer.' If you only watch catch-up on CH4, 5, iTV etc, or subscription services such as netflix, prime, you don't need a license.
If you watch any channel live, or bbc on catch up you do, and radio can be listened to whatever.
Relevant because, for all those complaining about the removal of the fee, even for the small minority of those that fall within the 'not on PC but can't afford to pay £3 per week' group, it's still not a choice between starving or pure loneliness due to no TV at all, as people are suggesting, because those pensioners, like a huge number of younger people do due to them needing to 'scrimp and save,' can also just use catch up or streaming services.
People say older people can't handle technology but that's just as offensive as any of the other 'poor/scrimping/saving/use racist terms because they don't know any better,' ridiculous generalisations.
A roku/firestick etc costs less than £30 as a one-off (less than three months of the license fee) and comes with a remote so is just as easy to use as a normal freeview box, which all pensioners have managed to switch to in the last few years since they cut off the analogue signal.
If we're bringing the 'lived through the war' generalisations into it, then they are also the generation who were code breakers and early computer programmers. Throughout their lives the average 75 year old has managed to get to grips with TV, internet, mobile phones, computers, ATMs, microwaves, increasingly computerised cars to mention just a few things that weren't (or barely) even invented when they were born or growing up.To suggest they can't operate 4od is offensive.