The French people should say, “okay, fine, screw TVs” and dump them.
The government would beg them to take it back, and give them money to do it.
A couple of years ago...the Germans did the same thing. The logic is...most everyone agreed on this...is that we are drifting toward a situation where the internet will be the new TV land. My son (German) today has no TV, and watches what he wants to....off his computer screen. There’s an entire generation going in this direction.
So the German TV mafia (gov’t run of course) figured out that in thirty years...they just wouldn’t have many viewers unless they got into this whole internet TV thing. They needed the tax funding to cover this.