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[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I can see why a lot of parents are throwing out there tellies. Here in Ireland, the post office extorts €160 a year out of you just for owning a television, so that RTÉ can continue to hog oxygen. Is that €160 a year worth it for a device that can brainwash your children with this shite? Just so that RTÉ can continue to frighten people and turn Irish people against one another? Yeah, no thanks.

[–]Elvira95Viva la figa 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Even in Italy. You're forced to pay for national television even if you don't watch it. Television is boring as fuck, only old people watch it. Why watching it when you can watch netflix ?

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Even Netflix is boring. I’m cancelling it soon and getting Amazon Prime. Then again, Netflix Ireland is terrible.

Yes, only old people watch television. In fact, they held a referendum in Switzerland on whether or not they should abolish the TV licence and the result was overwhelmingly negative, because it was mostly old people and middle aged people who bothered to show up to the polls. Why don’t they just make organisations like RTÉ, BBC and whatever Italy and Switzerland have become subscription services like Netflix and Prime? Oh yeah, because most boomers, most of the generation that came before boomers, and most older gen x-ers don’t want to adapt. These people are addicted to the television, and they treat the panel above the fireplace like it’s gospel. Television is to them what social media is to zoomers and younger millennials.

[–]usehername 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

How do they determine the difference between a TV and a computer monitor? Size? Can you just hook up a PC/console and call it a monitor?

[–]Elvira95Viva la figa 8 insightful - 5 fun8 insightful - 4 fun9 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

different technologies