Complaint to BBC regarding Pete the Badge

Chippy_boy said:
It's true in principle. I didn't realise you had to post pages of small print and disclaimers, which would divert from the point of the post:

If you want to watch TV in the UK, you need to pay for a TV license. You know that very well.
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That's quite simply false. Nobody is forcing you to watch the BBC, nor pay for it.

If you don't wish to pay to be robbed, you may block out BBC from your receiver (most likely a digibox these days) and you will therefore not have to pay for such a service.

You pay for your TV subscription, you pay for your TV. If you wish to be subscribed to the BBC too, THEN you also pay for that subscription in the form of the so-called ''Licence Fee''.

There have been some, more worryingly, likening this to Tax Avoidance, or even Tax Evasion, but these are completely different things. It is not a Tax and it's a dangerous conflation to make.

Whilst the BBC does also receive funding from our tax pot (as does C4), this is unrelated to the licence fee which is a subscription to a service and has nothing to do with our Tax System in any way, shape, or form. It is also completely optional, in that you may opt out of those channels, and only pay for those actually worth a dime.

Screw the paedophilic, morally corrupt, biased, and deplorable company that is the so-called British Broadcasting Corporation.
 
ProFunk said:
That's quite simply false. Nobody is forcing you to watch the BBC, nor pay for it.

If you don't wish to pay to be robbed, you may block out BBC from your receiver (most likely a digibox these days) and you will therefore not have to pay for such a service.

You pay for your TV subscription, you pay for your TV. If you wish to be subscribed to the BBC too, THEN you also pay for that subscription in the form of the so-called ''Licence Fee''.

There have been some, more worryingly, likening this to Tax Avoidance, or even Tax Evasion, but these are completely different things. It is not a Tax and it's a dangerous conflation to make.

Whilst the BBC does also receive funding from our tax pot (as does C4), this is unrelated to the licence fee which is a subscription to a service and has nothing to do with our Tax System in any way, shape, or form. It is also completely optional, in that you may opt out of those channels, and only pay for those actually worth a dime.

Screw the paedophilic, morally corrupt, biased, and deplorable company that is the so-called British Broadcasting Corporation.
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License is exactly what it says, it's not a subscription fee for the BBC

Part 4 of the Communications Act 2003 makes it an offence to use or install TV receiving equipment to:

  • watch or record programmes as they’re being shown on TV or live on an online TV service, including programmes streamed over the internet and satellite programmes from outside the UK, or
  • watch or download BBC programmes on demand, including catch up TV, on BBC iPlayer without being covered by a TV Licence.
Apologies for been of topic felt that this needed to be corrected
 
Gordyola said:
License is exactly what it says, it's not a subscription fee for the BBC

Part 4 of the Communications Act 2003 makes it an offence to use or install TV receiving equipment to:

  • watch or record programmes as they’re being shown on TV or live on an online TV service, including programmes streamed over the internet and satellite programmes from outside the UK, or
  • watch or download BBC programmes on demand, including catch up TV, on BBC iPlayer without being covered by a TV Licence.
Apologies for been of topic felt that this needed to be corrected
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Only applies to BBC programming. Which is why the block is provided.
 
Trevor Morley's Tache said:
I think the original complaint was firmly brushed under the carpet. Certainly the e-mail I had back basically said it was a a genuine mistake, and no offence was intended. I think everyone on BM knows that's b***ocks.
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Swept under the carpet via a catalogue of lies and misinformation- originally claimed the picture was sourced with the comments already attributed- when that was disproved a further set of lies were rolled out Bertie was a name plucked at random! Yeah right. Some Rag did this as a bit of fun at Pete’s expense - everyone knows what happened but the culture at the BBC is to cover things up and to lie. We saw that with Stuart Hall, Jimmy Saville etc and nothing has changed. They are too arrogant to admit they are ever wrong. A really bad culture that’ll lead to more and more issues.
 
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