Implementing a levy on international streaming services to help fund the SABC

[Daniel Puchert]

Proposed Netflix levy to save the SABC

Sportscape Media founder and director Gary Rathbone supports implementing a levy on international streaming services to help fund the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC).

Speaking to Cape Talk, Rathbone explained that players like MultiChoice, the SABC, and E-tv are restricted in their ability to operate in South Africa.

 

[HAL 9000]

 

[geezer]

 

[WAslayer]

Proposed Netflix levy to save the SABC

Sportscape Media founder and director Gary Rathbone supports implementing a levy on international streaming services to help fund the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC).

Speaking to Cape Talk, Rathbone explained that players like MultiChoice, the SABC, and E-tv are restricted in their ability to operate in South Africa.

No, they are not restricted in their ability to operate..

They are restricted in their ability, period...

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

SABC tax? isnt TV licenses working?

are they going to try tax piracy next? maybe hving a Laptop and cellphone next?

what will the ANC think of next to fund their incompetence?
swimming pool tax?

 

[borro]

Nom nom

 

[ToxicBunny]

Yeah fsck off Gary, not interested.

Tack on a levy and I go sailing the high seas again.

 

[xera]

A tax to watch an alternative to Government propaganda?

 

[Hemi300c]

Why the fvck must we support and fund anything that doesn't benefit us at all and is actually bankrupt.

 

[naughty001]

MultiChoice, the SABC, and E-tv are restricted in their ability to operate in South Africa.

they are restricted by their stupidity and greed ...... besides i use none of those so i will really not give a rats ar5e if they survive or not

 

[HAL 9000]

SABC tax? isnt TV licenses working?

are they going to try tax piracy next? maybe hving a Laptop and cellphone next?

what will the ANC think of next to fund their incompetence?
swimming pool tax?

 

[Smiggles]

Can't even watch Afrikaans on the SABC. Take your SABC and BBBEE and shove it sideways up your ass.

 

[HAL 9000]

Nom nom

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

they are restricted by their stupidity and greed ...... besides i use none of those so i will really not give a rats ar5e if they survive or not

problem is these people will come next for our piracy and uncapped internet, and ISP's.
they are masters of trying to find inventive new taxes.

 

[HAL 9000]

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

Why the fvck must we support and fund anything that doesn't benefit us at all and is actually bankrupt.

because people voted for the ANC and supported their lies.

 

[Rickster]

They already tried this when Netflix officially launched in SA.

Netflix said tesk.

 

[DHimself]

These idiots in power forget that they're working for the us, the public. I would pay my tv licence if I was confident that the money went where it was supposed to. Since that's not the case, they can go to hell. Seems they forgot about e-tolling and how spectacularly that extortion attempt failed.

The only other country with a tv licence, the UK, is bombarding its citizens with letters requesting payment of their licences.

Scrap the licence idea, launch or focus on a competing streaming service, and start charging for that service. Adapt or die.

 

[RaptorSA]

Hey Gary, prove to me first you can fit this ball up your ass without it touching the sides, then we can talk.



EDIT:
Governments being allowed to tax offshore online services is one of the worst precedents you can ever set.
You might as well give the government a blank cheque in that case 'cause they will expand that to eventually tax every single bit and byte that flows through your privately funded internet connection.

The brain-drain clearly did not leave us with the best.

 

[ShakeSpeer]

Once again, the people that must pay is not the people that watch SABC.