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312 points dcminter | 1 comments | 21 Oct 24 18:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source

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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.

kamaitachi ◴[21 Oct 24 19:43 UTC] No.41907726[source]▶

It’s not just a U.K. thing. Many European countries have something similar, although it might be called something else.

It’s a form of tax that pays for public service broadcasting, including radio stations.

Rendello ◴[21 Oct 24 20:01 UTC] No.41907932[source]▶

In Japan there was an infamous political party focused on getting rid of the hated TV licence system:

1. squidsoup ◴[21 Oct 24 20:13 UTC] No.41908042[source]▶

There's a great, and somewhat terrifying character relating to this, the "NHK Fee Collector" in Haruki Murakami's 1Q84.

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