Why Netflix viewers should pay the BBC licence fee

[What Hi-Fi?]

The government is reportedly considering charging Netflix viewers the BBC licence fee. I say go for it.

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[fazalmajid]

You must be incredibly naive if you still believe BBC journalism is impartial. It has been pretty thoroughly been neutered and brought to heel by Cameron's and successive governments, and the political hacks they appointed like Richard Sharp.

The BBC is a valuable instrument of soft power for the UK government, and thus some line items like the World Service (sadly cut to the bone) really should be paid out of the Foreign Office's budget.

Including the licence fee in the Netflix bill would mean people who are already paying the licence fee would be charged for it twice.

 

[MajorBloodknock]

The government is reportedly considering charging Netflix viewers the BBC licence fee. I say go for it.

Why Netflix viewers should pay the BBC licence fee : Read more

What a joke! The BBC has no standards to maintain - it left behind impartiality and accurate, quality programming decades ago.

Additionally, you are perpetuating the lie that the BBC Licence encompasses "anything live on streaming platforms", it does not. Youtube, Netflix, Amazon Prime etc are NOT broadcasters - this deliberately vague phrase, if true and was taken literally, would mean that the BBC would send around the boys if you watched individual content creators hosting live streams.

But then I'm not surprised legacy media companies, like Future Publishing, are defending their own kind...dinosaurs.

The BBC should be forced to into competing on a subscription model - we would soon see how much people actually value its content. By the same token, no one should shed a tear for the likes of Netflix when users leave - its content is hardly world class either!

 

[River]

What a bunch of baloney. The BBC isn't impartial and no one wants to keep paying for the BBC to line the pockets of the countless pedophiles they seem to employ. I tried adding my information sources here but whathifi thinks they are spam so you'll have to look it up yourself unfortunately

And to answer the question of even if you don't watch BBC do you listen? No I don't. I dont support the BBC in anyway. Dont watch it, don't listen to, and I even avoid any articles they write. They have an endless stream of sexual abusers and pedophiles that they seem to ignore/cover up until someone whistle-blows.

The writer of this article should stick to writing about headphones and speakers. Idiot

 

[unfocused]

You really think it's reasonable for people to pay (currently) £169.50 a year - a figure mysteriously omitted from your article - for a service they don't want or don't use? The idea that the BBC is a bastion of quality and integrity is long gone. The BBC is a bloated relic of the 20th century. Time to move on.