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British PC Tax to Replace TV License?

Posted by Zonk on from the look-for-this-soon-near-you dept.

caffeination writes "Here in Britain, anything capable of receiving live or virtually live broadcasts is considered TV receiving equipment. Because the detector vans can't actually 'catch' people watching such broadcasts on their computers, the BBC is proposing a blanket tax on PCs instead. They received several thousand responses to this green paper, ranging from the insightful to the unprintable."

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  1. My Rights??!! Online??!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Being a proud American citizen, I fail to see how this British proposal would affect my online rights or any rights of mine at all.

    Zonk, saying that this is coming soon near me is just plain stupid. What goes on in Great Britain will not affect any person that doesn't live there.

    Do the slashdot editors ever take Social Studies 101 in high school?

    1. Re:My Rights??!! Online??!! by heinousjay · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Poor coward. If you made the same bitch from a European perspective, you'd be +5, Insightful. Such is the way of the self-loathing intellectual elite, I suppose.

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  2. damn bush by b17bmbr · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    oops, my mistake. I thought everything evil in the world came from him. hey, isn't he responsible for the recent protests over a cartoon?

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