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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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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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carlosjobim ◴[21 Oct 24 20:00 UTC] No.41907925[source]▶
The purpose is psychological to attach a monetary value to the government TV channels, which makes the viewer consider them valuable and therefore trustable.
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1. andybak ◴[21 Oct 24 22:16 UTC] No.41909132[source]▶
No. It really isn't.