Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
"We are in talks with Twitter to resolve this issue as soon as possible. The BBC has always been and remains independent. We are funded by the British public through a license fee," the broadcaster said in a comment to CNN.
When Facebook put the inscription "the publication is funded by the state of Russia" for RT, it was normal. And the BBC is kind of independent, just like Deutsche Welle.
| Deutsche Welle is about as independent as the Egyptian government’s Al Ahram, as far as I can tell. |
By the way, funding the BBC from a license fee just directly means that this is state funding, since only the state can take a license fee - this is a type of tax. If the "license fee" were voluntary, then we could talk about public funding.
And so this is a state tax of 159 pounds per year from each owner of a television receiver, which directly goes entirely to finance the BBC. The TV channel receives from citizens a year at the level of 3.7-3.8 billion pounds (about 4.5 dollars) , which is approximately 75% of the budget, the rest (but this is less than 25%) is obtained mainly by advertising.
Since last year, negotiations have been underway to abolish this fee from 2028 and change the funding scheme. The company is negotiating with the UK GOVERNMENT. And at the same time brazenly claim that they live on private donations?