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313 points dcminter | 1 comments | 21 Oct 24 18:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | 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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FL410 ◴[21 Oct 24 19:59 UTC] No.41907917[source]▶
> A Licensing officer may call at your property not to collect the letters but to check that you are not watching a TV.

Just the thought of this is funny. What kind of uniforms do TV Officers wear? Do they get to carry a weapon? What happens if they find you watching a TV?

Amazing.

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1. preisschild ◴[21 Oct 24 20:45 UTC] No.41908358[source]▶
We had those in Austria (they changed it so everybody is forced to pay for that now...). They basically have no rights themselves, but they pretended to do and even try to force you to allow them to enter so they can check that you have no TV receiver (including the built in ones in the TV) and say that they will come with the police and a search warrant if you deny them. It doesn't even matter if you have no antenna or no coax cable.