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honestly the most realistic part in doctor who was the tv episode where david tennant says he doesnt have a tv licence and some woman’s like “Really?! They execute you for that!”

me: has literally JUST moved house

the bbc, waltzing from the shadows snapping it’s corperate fingers: give ‘us money or we’ll break yer’ kneecaps, gov'na :)

Yeah, i guess if you live outside the uk you might not know about this

@hotfuss you need a tv liscene to watch live tv (meaning anything that’s being shown at a scheduled time on the telly) you also need it to watch literally any bbc programming, even if you do it online on your laptop or phone. It’s the reason there are no adverts on the BBC.

It costs £154.50 that you have to pay every year. If you don’t have one they send you letters constantly telling you they’ll send somebody to your house to make sure you’re not watching tv. So despite the fact I’ve already told them i don’t watch tv (i work 40 hours a week and just watch youtube) they’ve started sending me the letters again so I have to call them up.

Oh and apparently they can track what devices you have in your home and tell when you watch their content without a liscence.

It’s very dystopian over something so fucking stupid, on the bright-side I did find this fake ad while trying to find the buildboard picture

that’s really what it’s like living here

That’s honestly dystopian sounding

What is a VAT fiddle

Charging somebody for being in the area you broadcast into when they aren’t even watching your broadcast is like playing a tuba solo outside somebody’s window every night while they try to sleep and then trying to force them to buy tickets to your “concert”.

But this is the country that’s trying to ban kitchen knives sooo

Funny thing is? It’s been proven that they’re lying about being able to spot you watching without a licence. They just say it to scare people.

It’s a giant protection racket run by the BBC, funny thing that.

I hear its basically considered a tax since i hear the BBC is essentially a goverment program (very roughly paraphrasing from shoddy memory here, do NOT take my word as wrote) and i know a lot of people consider those billboards and such jokes (in the sense of “aw look they think we take them seriously”) but it still sounds off to me.

Also £154.50 is $199.57, and i understand that’s a yearly charge but to rip off the vernacular of the Australians for a beat; ARE YOU HAVING A FUCKING GIGGLE MATE?

It is considered a tax. Altho ironically public schools and such have to pay for a TV licence, so government programs have to pay a government program… Also the BBC does quite literally threaten people to try and get them to pay for a TV licence, which has made even some of my most statist pro-BBC friends start reconsidering their defence for it

Basically it’s a shit show that I think should be privatised completely, including without subsidies, and the only argument people in favour of it seek to come up with is “but what if it becomes all sensationalist like in the US?”