12-11-2020, 06:37 AM
(12-11-2020, 05:33 AM)CallMeMike Wrote:(12-08-2020, 03:15 PM)vikozo Wrote: @the_bertrum ok thanks for your feedback! Something like digital Brexit ;-)
You are ill-informed, I'm afraid...
Every British household pays a tax (the amount is not important in this discussion) for helping to fund the British Broadcasting Corporation (a state-owned organisation); the BBC radio and TV broadcasts DO NOT contain commercial advertising hence the People's funding.
It would be quite unfair to the British population to 'fund' other nations' entertainment sources...
The argument falls down a bit when one considers that the BBC has always broadcast to the world for free and without advertising and that was in fact part of the point of the corporation in the first place. What began with the World Service is now continued with the unrestricted broadcast of the lower bitrate radio streams and other internationally available services. The reason for fencing off the higher bitrate streams is simply to reduce the number of people accessing them and therefore keep them affordable.
However, it has nothing to do with breixit
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