You need a TV licence to watch TV. But that’s a law for the UK not England.
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TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 6 months agoWhere does this meme even come from lol
Wanderer@lemm.ee 6 months ago
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The only weird thing about TV licence is the name. It’s not really a license at all, it’s just paying for a service you use.
If you watch live TV, you pay towards the broadcasting of it, plus the running of the BBC, which is ad-free in the UK.
The argument being that if it came from direct government funding, the government would have a much greater degree of control over the main national news source, which would likely be a worse solution. As would filling the BBC up with ads and cutting expensive content like proper news and excellent documentaries.
Calling it a license kind of implies you need to apply for a card or a document to watch TV, which isn’t the case.
The UK is far from the only country that has publicly-funded television that you legally have to pay for to use.
warmaster@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You are in direct violation of Penal Code 1.13, Section 9.
Please delete your account. You have twenty seconds to comply.
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TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yes, very amusing.
I would like an explanation though.
someguywithacomputer@lemmynsfw.com 6 months ago
I posted this from an encrypted vpn. Using encryption is a crime in England (unless they backpedaled on that already). Also, tea is stupid.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Using encryption is not a crime in England lmao. Where do you get your news from, Alex Jones?
someguywithacomputer@lemmynsfw.com 6 months ago
A month or two ago there were news articles all over lemmy about how they were banning encryption due to “safety” reasons.