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 😆

do me a favour if you would.
Will take you about 20 seconds.
Just google "does netflix have in house production"
or any source that you may prefer

It's called 'netflix studios' if you CBA, and thery 100% produce their own shows

@GreenApplesRedApplesYellowApples it's really interesting that you bring up the biased reporting! It's been proven both ways, in different reports that BbC has report bias for and against Gaza! From a personal perspective I feel like all news outlets have been condemned for poor reporting in Gaza, but then at the same time the social media 'journalists' claim none of the horrific sexual violence happened on 7th October, which really angers me.

Murdoch's media outlet is much scarier, he actually has more power to sway the political landscape of this country than the BBC. BBC has done more coverage on the Congo/Afghanistan than most other outlets.

No they don’t. They commission through Netflix Studios but they don’t produce in-house.

In basic terms, they fund original productions (with the input and oversight that goes with that) but they don’t do the actual making of them. They also do co-pros with channels including the BBC.