[aac74]

Being from the UK the explanation is perfectly clear to me. The BBC is Mussolini's vision of the corporatist state distilled to its basic essence. He is perfectly correct to post this. Why are people forced to fund private business ? How can this generate an optimal structure of production ? If the demand was there for the product no 'force funding' would be required and thus we would be sure that scarce resources were being put to their best, wealth creating, use. It is immoral to send people to jail for watching unencrypted tv streams. Just as it is wrong to send people a product they didn't want and then bill them when they use it. It is even worse to do this then recycle the cash into a foreign business then use profits from that business to prop up the main racket !

[icebraining]

Not sure if you can classify the BBC as a "private business". It's a company which has a Royal Charter, and its governing body (the BBC Trust) is composed of twelve members appointed by the Queen.

[aac74]

When it is almost impossible to tell the difference between state, charity, business and government you have Mussolini's vision perfectly enacted. Society now serves to enhance the power and prestige of the state rather than the other way around.

[icebraining]

But I disagree that it's almost impossible to tell the difference. The BBC is an extremely different company in many fundamental ways.

I think that if we were to consider the BBC as a signal of Fascism, then the term loses all meaning because even the states criticized by Mussolini had state controlled companies, from the what he called supercapitalists to the socialists.