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312 points dcminter | 2 comments | 21 Oct 24 18:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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cooper_ganglia ◴[21 Oct 24 19:34 UTC] No.41907633[source]▶
A "TV License" is one of those things I alway assumed people were making up to satirize the claims of over-regulation & bureaucracy in the UK.

Finding out it was real was a mixture of hilarious and sobering.

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TillE ◴[21 Oct 24 19:36 UTC] No.41907663[source]▶
It's basically a whole parallel tax collection system, which is truly nuts. Like the administrative overhead alone surely outweighs any abstract concerns about independence from government, which doesn't really exist in the UK anyway.
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1. Guthur ◴[21 Oct 24 19:41 UTC] No.41907707[source]▶
What's when more mental is that they are essentially all funding state propaganda agencies and so you're literally paying to be propagandised.

Not that much of none state media is really that much better to be honest.

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2. coliveira ◴[21 Oct 24 20:23 UTC] No.41908167[source]▶
We all pay to receive propaganda, be it governmental or not. A private TV channel will spread the ideology of their owners, and it is usually an ideology that is useful to them.