To think you should be able to watch live news on YouTube in times of national emergency?

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If you don't have a TV licence you are not legally allowed to watch the sky news stream on YouTube. This isn't sky demanding it, but the BBC. Aibu to think in national security emergency's this then the BBC licence rules should not apply? Especially if you are not even watching the BBC.

The less well off people in society may need this information to help them, but many don't a have a license as it's pretty expensive.

I don't have a tv license, I just read the online news, most sites have running coverage for big news and sites have live pages that update throughout the day (I'm reading the telegraph and guardian ones atm, guardian one was updated a minute ago). I don't miss out on news.

If you're paying for broadband then you have a device for accessing the internet, which means you have access to coverage.

No one needs to watch the news. Listen to the radio (free) or read news websites.

The license fee rules are a pile of crap anyway.

In the digital age there's no reason for a distinction between "live TV broadcasting" and live internet broadcasting. I can watch live streams of various (non-TV) things online but I can't watch things that are simultaneously broadcast on TV? It's so pointlessly arbitrary.

The licence fee should be a charge for BBC services (and any other services it funds) and nothing more.

That said, there's plenty of coverage you don't need a TV license for. You're hardly in a news-less vacuum!