tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959111893158321335.post2321228635045297705..comments2024-03-15T09:20:12.565+00:00Comments on TV Licensing: TV Licensing Threatogram Complaints RevealedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959111893158321335.post-15919789979991259862012-05-24T21:21:31.498+01:002012-05-24T21:21:31.498+01:00In response to Laci The Dog
This isn't about ...In response to Laci The Dog<br /><br />This isn't about removing the TV license. This is about people who have no wish to watch TV as it's broadcast who are being harassed into paying £145~ (or $227~ if you're from the USA) per year.<br /><br />Essentially the TV licensing company in the UK presume that everybody who doesn't pay the TV license is evading. They encourage their employee's to sell these licenses to people who don't even need them, and as you can see on this blog people have been threatened with a <b>criminal</b> prosecution for no reason.<br /><br />This is nothing to do with how the BBC gets it's funding. It's the fact that they presume that everybody who doesn't pay a TV license is guilty of evasion.<br /><br />"Innocent till proven guilty" - Sir William Garrow(1760 - 1840)TheStudentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959111893158321335.post-31720085604612106982012-03-29T20:39:20.556+01:002012-03-29T20:39:20.556+01:00Thanks for all your comments Laci The Dog.Thanks for all your comments Laci The Dog.Adminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12702203117069680585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959111893158321335.post-57157533509362780042012-03-29T12:41:47.884+01:002012-03-29T12:41:47.884+01:00hWhile we are in agreement that the TV detector va...hWhile we are in agreement that the TV detector van is one of the more idiotic things going...<br /><br />Would you prefer to have the BBC follow US public broadcasting's model and start having "extort a thons"? That's where they take a week or two from regularly scheduled programming to try and shame their viewers into couging up the cash to run their show.<br /><br />They might show a few minutes of a programme to come on and say "we need x amount of pledges to make our goal".<br /><br />One PBS station actually haranged the people who weren't supporting public broadcasting as a bunch of leeches.<br /><br />But as the US public broadcasting model points out: "if you have our station on your preset, you are a user. That menas you should be a member as well".<br /><br />Member being a more polite term than licence holder.<br /><br />Or you can have commercials.<br /><br />I would add that US cable not only makes you pay, but they add more commercials to an already over commercially saturated programme.Laci The Doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07138644349857941157noreply@blogger.com