New ORF law: “We didn’t choose it”
She defends the new household fee for ORF that she negotiated, which will be levied from 2024, even if more people would have to pay in future than was previously the case with the GIS fee: “The Constitutional Court has demanded a new solution from politicians , since the ORF’s previous free internet use was unconstitutional. We didn’t choose it, we were asked to come up with a new solution,” says Raab, alluding to the fierce criticism from many local print and online media that the ORF is now preferred even more than before and private providers are falling even further behind .