ITT: Examples that Britain is a dystopian shithole

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lmao

I hate the antichrist

When I used to live in the UK I got sent a TV loicense letter without inspectors actually coming into the house (was at work).

Why you ask?. The house had a rusted out antenna dish so they assumed I had a TV, which I didn't. It's truly and genuinely a gipsy tier racket. I obviously didn't pay kek, still owe them 150£. It's probably a 1000£ fine by now. They can collect once the UK rejoins the EU.

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Btw I was watching live TV as i was filling the form in. Is this what it feels like living in the fast lane boys?

what the fuck

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You can at least opt out, we pay more than 18€ each month for this dystopic green-red television channels.

The TV 'license' is a voluntary tax by any other name. Every country has a public broadcaster funded by some form of taxation. In the US you pay for PBS and anti-white garbage like NPR whether you like it or not. Who is more cucked, the person who can refuse to pay for the fee (me) or you who pays whether you like it or not?

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What the heck is a TV license and why would the police be involved in TV watching? That's some strange sounding overreach for simply watching TV.

The only people who watch live tv these days are the over 70s

Do you have a loicense to watch shit?

PBS is not really publicly funded, that’s why it begs for donations all the time. The US does have publicly funded news media with most of it being intended for foreign influence.

but a pc or a tablet are considered tv as well?

>illegally watching tv
WHAT!?

I can tell you're using a VPN because anyone who's ever actually lived in the UK knows that TV Licensing are just a bunch of scare-mongers. The write a bunch of bollocks about how powerful and diligent they are, but you've never actually known anyone who's had them show up, let alone seen them for yourself.

Pic related on the other hand...

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American public broadcasting budget is about $232 million, a literal drop in the bucket of our federal spending. BBC collects $3.8 billion pounds in loicense fees and those who refuse are subject to harassment.

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don't forget to contribute to the ukraine support fund

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Yes any device that is capable to live stream

yikes man.

>Why you ask?. The house had a rusted out antenna dish so they assumed I had a TV, which I didn't
They send them to literally every address on their system that isn't registered as a fee payer
>I obviously didn't pay kek, still owe them 150£. It's probably a 1000£ fine by now.
Mate, you said you didn't have a TV, so you don't owe them shit. In fact, you could own a TV and not watch TV on it and you wouldn't owe them anything

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Wrong

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Jokes aside, TV loicense has and always will be a laugh. They don't even know who lives in a property, so the letter will always state Sir/Madam, or "The legal occupier". The BBC employs some thugs to spam these letters to every single household and they have 0 legal justification to enforce any of the bullshit they sprout.
They rely on bullying people into submitting their personal information, so they can use it against you. I get one or two of these every month. There's a couple of templates, starting from "we might start an investigation", to "we are totally gonna investigate you" to "we will really send the boys round this time for real", alternating every couple of months.
I used this months as toilet paper, so have one from last month kek.

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Its a racket that exists in a few countries. Germany for one. Basically state TV isn't paid for by taxes, it's paid by an antiquated system in which anyone who watches live TV has to pay an annual fee to do so.
How do you keep track of who is watching live TV? You don't. So TV Licensing just send scary letters around to every house that isn't registered as paying the fee, regardless of whether they watch live TV, regardless of whether they even have a TV.

The point is to look scary so that people just pay up. But nothing happens if you don't do anything.
There are very rare cases of TV Licensing getting a warrant to have the police escort their inspector into a house (remember, this is to pay for STATE tv, thats why the police get involved). But they're few and far between. They have to have evidence you have a TV in the first place, which usually means having it visible from a window. Police don't often grant the warrants. And even when they do, and IF it ever makes it to court, the fine is usually the cost of the license fee and not the scary £1000 fine they will tell you about

CPB gets $445m from Congress actually. But yes the BBC is bloated and needs paring back. The thing is they create big budget TV series that are then exported worldwide and somebody has to pay for them. There has been talk of replacing the license with a subscription model similar to Netflix for some time now. Its days are numbered in its current form I would say.

Law that creates the loicense fee is up for review in 2027 I believe.
It's a shame Tories ballsed things up so badly that Labour are guaranteed the next election really. BoJo was pissed at BBC coverage (rightly show, bunch of lefty tossers pretending to be neutral) and said he would just axe the license fee