yeah, the threatening letters.
if you don’t pay your tv licence we will do absolutely nothing as we have no power or proof lol
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yeah, the threatening letters.
if you don’t pay your tv licence we will do absolutely nothing as we have no power or proof lol
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That's mostly down to the fact they're banned from appearing on selected BBC shows.
But yes, the current government consultation is completely coincidental and unrelated to all that.
Who has banned them, certainly NOT the BBC..... Dominic Cummings perhaps?
Certainly years ago ministers were queuing up to get on Newsnight and The Today programmes. Pity I like to see/hear them defending their positions, irrespective of their political stance.
Soldato
Yes, the Conservative leadership invoked the ban.
It's like them reputedly not being allowed to use the term brexit anymore .. but haven't heard enough HP live to corroborate
or, ambiguous .
it's easier than you think https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.p...-deals-blow-uk-isp-internet-snooping-law.html
or, ambiguous .
yeah, the threatening letters.
if you don’t pay your tv licence we will do absolutely nothing as we have no power or proof lol
should just stack up all the letters and post it back to them lol
Soldato
I think that it refers to people who are too thick or lazy to use Google
Don't take me for a ****
You know full well what i meant. In other words, why the hell is this even mentioned in a so called "public debate"
What anyone's "age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership and pregnancy and maternity" has got to do with the decriminalization of the tv licence beggers belief.
This ties back into my question, which nobody else seems to be asking and seems to me to be the most pertinent question of all? Surely they have no right to information from you, so how will the fine levels be set? It'll surely have to be one size fits all.
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What are you talking about?
Private companies hold more information on the public than some public companies do.
Experian, Google, Facebook, banks, insurance companies, etc.
You don't need authority to hold information on someone.
But you have to have a reason to keep it and it has to be relevant. It also can't be used for something else.
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And you don't think a company that has been authorised by the authorities to police TV licenses doesn't have a valid reason?
ISP's are holding IP addresses, anyway, for potential security service use, so the idea that Capita couldn't access these to identify license breakers (aka copyright infringers ?) seems illogical; there's an article about lots of N.Ireland uni students being prosecuted, which (they don't take tv's on campus these days) must have been iplayer/live streaming abuse.
The BBC seem cagey about their/Capitas methods. .... people who have been prosecuted don't sign an nda that would prevent them revealing proof mechanism either.
The BBC seem cagey about their/Capitas methods. .... people who have been prosecuted don't sign an nda that would prevent them revealing proof mechanism either.
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It would be a matter of public record anyway.
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Downing Street 'vows to abolish BBC licence fee'
"Downing Street is planing to scrap the BBC licence fee and replace it with a Netflix-style subscription model, according to reports.
Senior aides to the prime minister allegedly told the Sunday Times that the corporation would be forced to sell off most of its radio stations and scale back its website.
The plans also include reducing the number of BBC TV channels and banning the broadcaster’s stars from having “second jobs”, it is claimed.
“We are not bluffing on the licence fee,” the source was reported as saying. “It has to be a subscription model.
“They’ve got hundreds of radio stations, they’ve got all these TV stations and a massive website. The whole thing needs a massive pruning back.”
Before the general election, Boris Johnson admitted he was ”looking at” abolishing the licence fee.
He was also said to be considering the decriminalisation of non-payment of the annual charge.
The current royal charter – which sets out the governance of the BBC – runs until December 2027.
Earlier this week the BBC chairman Sir David Clementi warned the prime minister that attacks on the corporation will result in a “weakened United Kingdom” and urging the government “not to rush to short-term decisions”.
It comes after Downing Street refused to appear on BBC Radio 4‘s Today programme due to what they believe is its pro-Remain bias."
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/bbc-licence-fee-could-be-axed/ar-BB102n0K
Caporegime
If they knock, answer the door, they will announce who they are, then say "oh bear with me just a moment, I'll be right back" then shut the door, and see how long they stand there. 
This has been needed for decades. The BBC funding system is fundamentally out of date and it has led to a company that has just failed to keep up with the modern competition.
The arguments the BBC put forward for maintaining the license just don't wash. If the BBC is as good as it keeps telling us it is, then why are they so afraid to adopt a business model that works for every other entertainment group in the world?State run TV in the West, in this day and age? Seriously? The BBC is a dinosaur from an era that no longer exists. This is one "de-nationalisation" that I would whole-heatedly agree with.
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We all know what happens to businesses that don’t adopt new things.
Caporegime
Good, scrap the fee it’s a joke.
Good - the vast majority of their stations, content etc.. could just be run on a commercial basis.
Frankly they should spilt it in half and have a much smaller public service broadcaster - world service, news etc.. funded directly from taxation. The rest can go self funding...
Completely ridiculous that a fee needs to be paid to the BBC in order to say watch ITV, Sky, Channel 4 etc...
About time. I thought they would be scummy and stick it on general taxes, but seems not. The government makes a good choice for once
The BBC is going to have to improve if they want to sell though. They can't keep peddling the same low end crap they are atm.
The BBC is going to have to improve if they want to sell though. They can't keep peddling the same low end crap they are atm.