More on the application of television tax to mobile phones, from The Register:
Users of the BBC’s trial of TV-over-Wi-Fi networks will break the law if they plug in their mobile phones in locations not covered by a television licence, the TV Licensing Authority has warned.
Those affected may wish to read the entire article.
It’s home* computers next. Nostradunderclass has spoken.
*but not, of course, business computers, run by Micro$oft-trained gangs of rude young IT men. These will be exempt. Unless, of course, the business happens to be a small business. Or one to which the Comrades of Proven Worth have taken exception.
BBC; abolish; disestablish; scrap; expunge; root and branch; warriors; slaughtered; women & children; enslaved; crops; burned; cattle; driven off
Charles Moore has covered this amply. You do not need to worry: you just have to be strong and resolute and they will go away.
There is no apparatus in the “detector” “vans”. They are empty. That is why you can’t see into one even if you wanted to, and asked really nicely: they would have to kill you on the spot and stuff your body-parts into the nearest weaponized dustbin.
Never let them in: never say anything: never have the TV on when they call: never say anything over the phone:
They will eventually terrorise a single mum in Bootle instead, who they catch in her knickers at 11.30 in the morning.
I am not worrying. I am strong and resolute. To the extent that they have now gone away. My technique was to phone their office and demand of the first individual I spoke to, then their manager, then their manager’s manager, etc. the following:
“Is it your intention to seek a search warrant in respect of these premises?”
They wouldn’t answer this and now the supply of threatening letters seems to have dried up.