Il Labour porrà fine ai procedimenti giudiziari per i canoni della BBC poiché colpiscono in modo sproporzionato le donne
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/labour-set-to-end-licence-fee-prosecutions-in-the-name-of-women-jpfrtn8mg
di Nervous-Peanut-5802
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Terrible messaging for an actually positive measure. It’s like Labour are determined to drop every possible ball.
I can’t read the article and the archive link appears to be broken. But this is a good policy motivated by a weird premise. It’s not engaging with the real reason behind decriminalizing it and just stoke up culture wars.
Good. The TV licence should be a matter of contract law, like every other entertainment service.
Did Labour asked ChatGPT to come up with a list of policies that would piss off as much of the electorate as possible?
With today’s technology, in fact technology that’s been about for over a decade. They could easily make this a subscription service.
That includes the iPlayer, try using Netflix etc without a password and you won’t get very far. The BBC puts out free to air and then prosecutes you for looking at it. there are channels on Freeview the UK digital system that are already behind a paywall.
That way if you want their content you pay for it if you don’t you don’t. The government could bake in a rule for national important items to not be behind the pay wall on all channels.
Things like coronations, royal funerals, remembrance Day etc
As we know laws are only allowed to disproportionately affect men
TV licensing needs a massive overhaul.
I don’t pay for it, but I’m apparently supposed to if I watch a foreign service online… That’s absurd overreach
I was surprised people were still being prosecuted. For almost 10 years, I’ve been getting letters about a “final warning” or that a case has been opened. Not once in all that time has anyone knocked at my door about the TV licence.
The licence fee should be scrapped entirely and the BBC should stand or fall on the appeal of its output but this is at least a step in the right direction.
As usual with this Labour government they have managed to get the messaging as wrong as humanly possible. We only want to prosecute men is presumably not the message they wanted.
It’s being scrapped because it’s not worth the administrative burden. But nice to see that the “culture secretary” (wtf is this even) got the chance to turn this into a gender issue.
I wonder how much tax payer money is wasted on the myriad of letters that are sent out every few weeks, claiming “Investigation Opened!”, and the people sent out to harass people on the door step.
It’s a good move for the wrong reasons.
I hope they find a way to fix its funding, I do enjoy being able to watch some shows/news/sport without needing an account or having to endure adverts.
We need to decriminalize murder as murder prosecutions disproportionately affect men.
Nobody in the PLP has said it’s because it disproportionately effects women. The headline appears to be based on a single quote from Cherie Blair:
>”When you think that a third of all female convictions are for not paying their TV licence … It’s absurd.”
Which is actually quite a startling stat and should be interrogated.
But this headline is simply tabloid bullshit.
Sending people to prison for non-payment is imprisonment for debt under another name. Better to have a non-custodial option.
>A senior government source said: “The administrative burden of policing non-payment of the licence fee should not be falling on the taxpayer. It should be carved out. It’s not worth the hassle it creates.”
This is the only actual quote from a Government source in the article. The claims this is due to concerns about disproportionate affects on women are completely unsourced and likely just spin from The Times.
Women actually, without any irony, think they are opressed
Hopefully means they’ll stop sending their multitude of daft ‘investigation’ letters out, like a weirdo ex that can’t get the hint. Might save them some money as well.
Iplayer should have gone subscription based years ago.
I stopped watching BBC years ago. I found they no longer cater to my particular demographic.
I’m not a fan of science fiction. I have found that the BBC has often been disappointing in their quite frankly lacklustre attempts.
This is the channel where traditionally, their sci-fi was much see tv and discussed in parliament.