The Fee Extortion Central is really getting more influence then. Somehow absurd - the whole thing could simply be solved by treating public broadcasting stations as part of state infrastructure services and simply financing them through tax revenues. But of course that contradicts the idea of capitalism - and so the rules become more and more absurd.
So we'll forever pay GEZ fees on silly devices, have increasingly arrogant GEZ employees on our backs if we think we want to defend ourselves against it, have the ridiculous discussion about this topic over and over again. Meanwhile, tanks and bombers are still being built from tax revenues - those are of course much more important parts of infrastructure than broadcasting.
At heise online news there's the original article.