If you emmigrate
Do you get to watch the Beeb for free? Just wondering like.
Joking aside, it's clear that creating british programmes is a cultural thing, so the only thing that galls me is that they call it a TV license.
In this day and age, if you want people to pay for your content, encrypt it, but don't enforce the notion that it's a license for using a TV or Radio - that is so very much outdated.
So it's a tax to support britush culture then, not a license to use a TV or Radio device that is capable of being used for so many different things other than consuming the output from the Beeb.