Todd Walton said:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:26:56 -0800, boblq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Your stupid argument could be used against any law that any
>> democracy passes that forces someone to do something that
>> they do not want to do, which is after all the whole point of laws.
>
> Like the DMCA or Patriot Act.
>
BZZZZZZZZZZZZT. Bad analogy. The DMCA or Patriot act have nothing
whatsover to do with funding anything by anybody nor do they involve
taxing anybody for anything. The BBC funding mechanism is a
fee-for-service mechanism. If you don't like the service, don't buy
it. You seem to be under the misperception that you aren't "taxed" for
television programming here. Instead of the government taxing it here,
the corporations are doing the taxing. You pay a little more for every
item you buy that is advertised. The corporations then spend that
money to advertise on TV and they put programming in between the
commercials. In return they get to veto programming. If they don't
like it, it doesn't get shown between their commercials.
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