BBC Tax for all

[noseall]

Wasn't the whole "detector vans" a lie and a con just designed by the government to scare people into paying. Bit like covid and climate tax

It was designed for the kind of people that beleive in chem trails.

 

[motorbiking]

They [the beeb] were still lying about them as recently as a decade or so ago.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

They once had at least one working detector van. It's in a museum somewhere now. But the suspicion is that they also had a number of others painted up with nothing inside. No figures have ever been published showing the number of prosecutions as a result of detector van evidence, and there have been no known cases.

Today, they state that their detector vans are stealthy, so don't have any writing on them. The idea being that any plain van, or possibly some with business names on them, could all be detector vans. Everyone not paying them should fear every van that drives past.

This sort of nonsense is just ridiculous in any sane democracy.

 

[ellal]

I did it once but since I am under no obligation to, I don’t.

It’s harassment fairly clearly but they would argue legitimate interest. It would take someone to bring a claim to properly test it.

No-one has tested it afaik...

But if you have a problem with their approach you can always send them an appropriate Withdraw of Right of Access notification...

Even though it doesn't include their letters per se, they usually give up sending them...

That is coming from someone who thinks the licence fee is good value for money

The same approach works for the census lot. And even if they do turn up unexpectedly you simply say 'I have no information to give you'

 

[noseall]

They once had at least one working detector van

Perhaps they use chem-trails now (you'd have to ask aveatry) and that the houses that are watching BBC without a licence glow when the chemical hits?

Mind you, they'd be few and far between considering that over 22 million of them were issued last count.

 

[crystal ball]

I worked alongside an old school TV engineer and he said the vans picked up the line base oscillation back in the day

 

[noseall]

I worked alongside an old school TV engineer and he said the vans picked up the line base oscillation back in the day

Didn't they use an Interocitor for that job?

 

[Dec27]

Didn't they use an Interocitor for that job?

No a van

 

[Justin Passing]

I worked alongside an old school TV engineer and he said the vans picked up the line base oscillation back in the day

Yes. It was from the Line scanning coils, 15625Hz, back in the 50's, it worked as far as the street. Now they use your iPlayer login.
Theoretically , modern displays do emit something called Van Eck phreaking, but that's more sci-fi than practical.
They might also look through your window...

 

[fillyboy]

 

[motorbiking]

No-one has tested it afaik...

But if you have a problem with their approach you can always send them an appropriate Withdraw of Right of Access notification...

Even though it doesn't include their letters per se, they usually give up sending them...

That is coming from someone who thinks the licence fee is good value for money

You might find this interesting https://www.bbctvlicence.com/Withholding implied right of access.htm

The same approach works for the census lot. And even if they do turn up unexpectedly you simply say 'I have no information to give you'

Be careful with "freeman of the Land" advice https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/10-11/41/section/8
This is quite different to a TV Licence sales call from Capita, which can be addressed with a simple sign.

 

[noseall]

I’m guessing it wasn’t a clandestine campaign.