A TV license, or the need to buy one for having your computer connected to the internet? Being Irish, I have a particular problem with the way it's implemented at home because the license fee is onerous but you have to put up with ads as well, so you get the worst of both worlds. I'm in favor of public broadcasting but I feel it should offer value for money.
I lived without television for quite a long time, and would be quite happy to do so again, since the main benefit of a large screen to me is the ability to watch movies (on DVD). So I am rather hostile to the idea of having someone come to the house and insist on looking around to see whether I have a television or the not. Collecting a license even if I don't own a TV is just insufferable.
I don't like it because I don't watch any TV programming, but it makes perfect sense to me. People that were watching things on TV are now watching them online. Many young people don't have televisions. So either public programming goes or it gets collected based on internet usage.
I lived without television for quite a long time, and would be quite happy to do so again, since the main benefit of a large screen to me is the ability to watch movies (on DVD). So I am rather hostile to the idea of having someone come to the house and insist on looking around to see whether I have a television or the not. Collecting a license even if I don't own a TV is just insufferable.