Time to unfollow them, I guess.

  • Obinice@lemmy.world
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    Makes sense, we pay our licence fee for our public service, why should people abroad get for free what we have to pay for?

    I was happy with the current arrangement of adverts supporting the service use abroad, but if it has to migrate to a subscription model to meet modern demands then that’s the way it is.

    I wouldn’t go to another country and ask them to make one of their government’s national public services free for me to use, after all.

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      The world service was always free because it’s a propaganda platform that promotes Britain and British values abroad. I guess they are content just to push Reform propaganda to a domestic audience from now on.

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      Nah mate. Information is free the second it leaves its source. Any attempt to curtail it after then is just a cunt’s trick.

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        I imagine you wouldn’t be saying this if it was your work being used.

        If you went through the painstaking effort or writing a book or something, I imagine you’d be pretty unhappy if nobody wanted to reimburse you, and you were called a cunt for wanting to be paid for your labour.

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          I work for a living, so I’m used to my work being exploited as a matter of course.

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            That’s exactly my point.

            Presumably you’re paid for the work you do, and you shouldn’t have to do it for free, yes?