About the TV license potentially being extended to streaming services?

[Haruka]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/01/28/netflix-users-could-forced-pay-licence-fee/

I already pay enough for the services themselves. I don't watch live TV and especially not the BBC. I am fed up with this potentially becoming a lack of choice; it feels like extortion and yet another tax.

I know that in other countries any device capable of receiving live TV and/ or radio needs a licence (including car radios, laptops, iPads and smartphones), but in this day and age it's taking the piss potentially having to pay for a service I don't even use, just to get access to things that I do.

AIBU to take a very dim view of these proposals?

I'm surprised I haven't seen any other threads on this yet, but maybe I'm blinded by fury 😆

You missed the bit of the end which explains why someone would seem ignorant.

“Well, I was wholeheartedly agreeing with the rest of the post more than that one sentence, but yes, dismissing the entire output of the BBCs many channels,
websites, radio stations and community outreach projects would make someone seem pretty ignorant and ill-informed, because either the have no idea what the BBC offers, or they are so determined to hate the institution they won’t acknowledge any positives.”

Wow, you two have absolutely no idea how you come across, do you?

Not watched BBC or live streamed tv for years. I also don't pay for a TV licence as do not wish to fund the bbc.
I don't use their services and therefore do not need to pay them.

I've had letters that go in the bin, once had one of their capita salesman knock my door, once he introduced himself I closed the door.

People who believe you need a licence just to own a tv are simply throwing money away.

can you stop posting stuff that's wrong so I can stop correcting you please.
If you are referring to Netflix they absolutely do have inhouse productions. many of them

If you feel that your cultural heritage lies with 17th century Britain, BBC2 should have something you’d enjoy.

Name one.

great aren't they.

A shame for @Feelslikewinter as she obviously has some severe memory retention problems .
She's told me a few times she doesn't judge what people watch and hasn't insulted anyone!

"it’s a terrible circle of increasing stupidity because they never watch anything that improves their minds."

nah, that's not judgey or insulting, is it!

House of cards

Made by MRC and Trigger Street productions, commissioned by Netflix.

next?

😂

That is pretty judgey and insulting, you are absolutely right.

Funny, too.

@woodenbatandball channel 4, paramount and discovery do better documentaries. That's before you look at the independent content creators on YouTube.

@Feelslikewinter my 90 year old grandparents have Sky!! My Nana will occasionally watch the BBC but even that is through her skybox.

produced by netflix in their inhouse productions.

The only thing I watch on TV is movies. I'm glad that my hard-earned money hasn't lined the pockets of Saville, Edwards and Bartlett.

You're offensive, unpleasant and weirdly unable to accept any viewpoint other than the BBC is fab and if you don't agree you're thick.
Oh, and for a supposed expert in the field you don't seem to understand how production works.

Nope.

Commissioned by Netflix, produced by the production companies stated above.

They do not make things in-house - they do commission original content which is produced by independent production companies.

@Anothercoffeeafter3 I love a channel four documentary! I think all the 'terrestrial' channels have some great content! Channel five is a bit dubious (though my guilty pleasure was the Hotel Inspector... don't tell anyone). Discovery docs are very ££££ some are great, but I find their nature docs can lack any personality! But I do love David A so maybe I'm biased! I don't have Paramount, but would love to get some recommendations

Please watch the Navalny documentary if you haven't already - was incredible (and tragic)

Lol. Now who’s being judgey?

Please do explain how production works to me.

I’d love to hear more.

Sorry but you laughing and saying it's funny to say someone is in an ever increasing circle of stupidity means you're not the sort of person I want to engage with.
Good evening to you

@menopausalfart I hope you don't watch any produced by Weinstein!

@woodenbatandball That's the trouble isn't it? No one knows who the next dirty fker will be.
Thankfully, I never enjoyed his films.

Guess you couldn’t find any in-house Netflix productions then…

Gutted not to hear you explaining my world to me, though. Ah well. Thems the breaks.

@menopausalfart sorry that did make me laugh out loud! I think we'd boycott most media if all of them were exposed!

I tell a lie, I did watch an ITV show last year and joined the chat on MN, which was good fun. I might even do it again if there's another series.

Don't make me laugh!

See the Covid lockdown protests, Gaza coverage, the war in Iraq, the trial of Julian Assange, Israel merely 'advancing into' not invading Syria, 'explosions killing people' in Gaza not dying because of being deliberately bombed, literally anything Trump does or doesn't do, Russia 'losing' the war in Ukraine, Any LEDC making partnerships with China, for your unbiased 'world renowned news provider with a charter to present balanced reporting'.

The BBC is ultimately a government sponsored regime change PR guru. Not unique, so is most of our press. Most of any country's press. That is why the licence fee largely persists as policy rather than subscription. It's a convenient subtle propagandist, one most people passively trust and are happy to watch, it's not chiefly because of it's cultural aspects no matter what they say. It's the state broadcaster. It doesn't matter which party is in, it serves the overriding mission. It will occasionally throw out a populist view just to keep the illusion going. This is why I do not believe for a moment that Reform would axe it were they to win an election. You'd get a great song and dance about reforming and restructuring it instead.

Granted every news outlet has its own bias. But you can't see your own unless you step outside it.

It does great reporting when the subject at hand doesn't conflict with an over-arching foreign/social government directive. That I agree with.