Comment Re:This is in fact an entirely reasonable proposal (Score 1) 312
Well, the BBC operates web sites. Clearly, anyone who uses any sort of web site should be obliged to subscribe, or at least pay something, to the BBC. Therefore, we are going to have a tax on Internet use, some or all of whose proceeds will go to the BBC, for it to operate its public service web sites.
I know you think you were joking, but a couple of years ago it was announced that the TV licence for DR (Danmark's Radio - the Danish equivalent of the BBC which is responsible for some radio stations, TV channels and websites just like the BBC) would become a "media licence", and it would be extended from radio and TV owners to anyone who owned a device with an internet connection (including mobile phones).
So, in Denmark if you have an internet connection you're paying for DR, whether you access their content or not.
Why on earth are states involved in producing media anyway? They don't make newsapers after all (although the USSR had Pravda).