Brits refuse to pull plug on B&W TVs!

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Originally Posted by wa2ise

And it's the government that collects this fee, and then funds the broadcaster? Sounds like that broadcaster better not say nothin' bad about the government or else the government cuts off the funding. We in the USA would never tolerate that situation. We have laws that specifically forbid the government from broadcasting domestically (Voice of America is for foreign listeners, but we still can hear it spilling inside the USA, but almost nobody in the USA ever listens to shortwave anyway). We take our first amendment seriously.
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I'm pretty sure this doesn't violate the "no politics" rule, as everyone agrees that the first amendment is a good thing, conservatives, liberals, democrats, republicans.

As long as the Government has no power to change the fee, or divert
the funds to uses other than BBC funding, I think the BBC can be said
to be independent from the government, and this fact is generally
agreed on. Regards.