
A small levy on UK broadband providers – no more than £2 a month on each subscriber’s bill – could be distributed to news providers in proportion to their UK online readership. This would solve the financial problems of quality newspapers, whose readers are not disappearing, but simply migrating online.
via A £2-a-month levy on broadband could save our newspapers | Media | The Guardian.
Did The Guardian just come out in support of a poll tax? Most people have broadband, so it’s the same practical effect?
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