watching Netflix without a license are we?
https://x.com/NewsWire_US/status/1884280062327066731
UK weighs requiring households using only streaming services like Netflix and Disney to pay BBC license fee โ Bloomberg
— NewsWire (@NewsWire_US) January 28, 2025
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At this point I can't close my eyes and think of a dystopian hyperbolic parody of something bongland would do to its slaves that hasn't already happened lmao
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Actually never mind, I bet they could go door-to-door and confiscate kitchen knives, flathead screwdrivers, shoe horns, etc.. Anything that could be used for terrorism
!remindme 2 weeks
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Dozens of horrific zombie weapons off the street in new crackdown.
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Terrorism is on the rise. We will combat this by removing cowtools that could be used for terrorism from people who don't commit terrorism while importing millions of terrorists
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they are already calling to regulate amazon so knives can't be sold there
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I will be messaging you on 11.02.2025, 17:24 UTC to remind you of this comment
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Add fertilizer to the list
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Closing you're eyes and thinking of dystopian hyperbolic parodies? Gonna need a loicence for that
Trans lives matter
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I was already lost at the wanking loicense
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Bongs need to do diversity training in order to buy clothes now
https://rdrama.net/post/337500/want-a-north-face-jacket-no
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We need trans hedgehogs! Trans hedgehogs belong here! We love trans hedgehogs!
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!commenters there is no license fee for torrenting netflix
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Where is the logic in making netflix customers pay?
At this point just make it a tax and have everyone pay it, that'd be more justifiable.
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My favorite thing about the television license is that if you're blind or deaf, it costs 50% less.
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Apparently it's only for the blind.
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Gotta Kellermaxx in Bongland to avoid taxes
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Thats how we fund PBS
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That's what germanocucks did.
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300 euros per year btw
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I think cable stations have to pay a tax. So the thought is streaming services should have one too.
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The humiliation and control is the point, not the funding lol
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Not a Bong, but suppose I only had a computer monitor in place of a TV and wasn't subscribed to any steaming services, would I still need to pay a fee?
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Only if you watch live TV. There's really no way they could ever identify that though. You'd have to let an inspector into your house voluntarily and show them that you're watching live TV.
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Which makes the whole license thing even dumber because you could just collect a small fee when they buy the subscription instead of playing detective trying to figure out whose has a tv license
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The BBC has been unable to restructure their payment model for the age of streaming because they've been under Tory rule and the Tories dislike the BBC.
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This wouldnt have happened if the LibDems controlled your country
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Like watching a live stream on a computer from the BBC or another British TV channel?
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Any live-broadcast "programme", whether over-the-air, cable, or even if it's on YouTube (excluding user-generated content). On-demand/catch-up services are not covered.
https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/faqs/FAQ104
R-slurs started a sentence with "Or" and I don't know what it's even trying to say.
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WOW.
Everytime I think Canada is boned, I just look at Britain and I feel a lot better. At least everyone here knows the CBC is garbage and is only kept running to keep Liberal loyalists happy.
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Yes
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in theory I think you are meant to have one for twitch livestreaming, but I have literally never heard of this being enforced or even properly tested
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What if they ask?
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Just say no. They don't put much effort into actively enforcing it - most people pay and the rest just get increasingly scary letters.
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You want me to lie???
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I'm not a brit, but I live in a country where we have a similar licence system. You have to pay it, even if you don't have a TV, because you probably have access to the internet and the national public TV has a web livestream you can watch. You don't have internet at home? You still have to pay, because your phone has internet. You somehow don't have a phone? You still have to pay, because your car has a radio, and you could listen to the public radio there.
Despite that, I don't pay the licence. If they come knocking on my door, I'll probably start, but until then I'll just save myself the 200 a year.
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Just say you're a Germoid, there's no shame in it.
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You got a loicense for only having Netflix in your household? Now they need loicenses for not having things. lmao
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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What kind of cucks would have to pay hundreds per year for a broadcast license for a service they never use. I'm sure !germs can only imagine
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I pay for Medicare though
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Time to be contrarian and say that the TV licence is actually good
>not funded by governments
Okay so it doesn't work out perfectly like that in practice, but a TV service that's free from both of those cancerous influences is a good thing indeed.
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It's funded by what amounts to a tax. How is that meaningfully different from being funded by the government? People don't have the choice to opt out of paying if they don't want, so it doesn't give individuals any say in the content that is produced, unless they're willing to opt out of TV altogether. It's just an r-slured way to structure a tax in the early days when tv ownership was a big deal that should have been retired decades ago.
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Good, fleece those streamcucks
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in defense of the loicence the bbc is pretty good and I don't pay it anyway
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You get unlimited streaming access with bbc too which has a massive backlog of content too
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Snapshots:
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They have to figure out if Sharia Law allow for such entertainment and only then will they discuss the licensure fee.
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I thought they were getting rid of it lmao
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Still have to pay for radio and public TV in Krautland too.
But that's just standard not based on if you have TV/Internet or anything like that.
Public services are funded by public funds!
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at leesht noh skewl shewtings
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