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312 points dcminter | 1 comments | 21 Oct 24 18:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.274s | 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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Zak ◴[21 Oct 24 19:38 UTC] No.41907684[source]▶
Many European countries are worse about it than the UK; even people who do not own a television are required by law to pay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licence

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1. preisschild ◴[21 Oct 24 20:39 UTC] No.41908308[source]▶
Yeah, Austria had the british system for a while, but after everyone started streaming (because the content is better and prices are actually cheaper) they changed it so every household needs to pay.

Now I'm forced to pay for old sitcoms, astrology shows, soccer stuff and other useless things I don't watch anyways...