Think the OP is right on this one actually. If you're struggling financially, this is functionally equivilent to criminalising poverty regardless of the steps involved. It's also frankly bullshit that a corporation can charge a toll for all live television broadcasts in a country even when it has no bearing on their own content.
Simple solution:
Put all of their shite behind an id system and charge a fee for that. Don't monopolise fucking live tv as if it runs off the stored farts of Jimmy Saville.
I believe the topic is about the miscarriage of justice based on how the post office and fujitsu wrongfully harassed and took people to court over bugs, which were known about by those organisations. Hence of relevance to Hacker News types.
It isn't meant to be about your jaundiced view of 'BBC propaganda'...
But it is propaganda - thats what the BBC does. I think the HN types would be very interested in government propaganda from an organization that forced UK citizens to fund it or face jail. I mean you can’t just slip in a statement like that and expect silence and a nod of the head. It’s borderline orwellian
Only if by different you mean the same.