[Guthur]

What's when more mental is that they are essentially all funding state propaganda agencies and so you're literally paying to be propagandised.

Not that much of none state media is really that much better to be honest.

[coliveira]

We all pay to receive propaganda, be it governmental or not. A private TV channel will spread the ideology of their owners, and it is usually an ideology that is useful to them.

[account42]

With private channels you can choose which ones to fund. Not so much with forced TV license fees for state broadcasters.