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  The BBC want to license our PCs, Macs, and very likely our mobile gadgets too, simply because they make certain TV services available online. This is a scandal beyond rip-off, it's like being mugged by a giant corporation. The BBC should REMOVE all of it's online TV services so that it can have absolutely no claim to a PC / gadget license. It's a slippery slope that only leads to us being shafted yet again.
  
  I also disagree with the view that the less well-off will be stuck with crap TV. There are many decent things on freeview, Channel 4 offers one of the best news services on all of the four main channels (okay that's a matter of opinion) and the fact of the matter is that many less well-off people are criminalized for the harmless act of watching TV programs without a license. The freeview argument falls flat on its face - at least it's free and available, and if we had no license fee then at least the less well-off could watch something without fear of arrest and huge fines.
  
  The TV license collectors are forever shoving propaganda at us showing none license payers as scumbags and criminals. Most of them are simply very hard-up, harmless individuals who just want to watch the TV.
  
  We live in a free economy where we choose what we want to pay to consume but the BBC license fee is just plain totalitarianism in its truest form and simpyl no longer has any place in the modern media landscape.

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