The cost of a TV license in the UK is £159 per year. BBC outsources their sales process to a third-party company called Capita, who operate under the TV Licensing brand name. Capita’s salesmen rebrand themselves as “Enforcement Officers” or “TV License Inspectors”. This creates a false impression of legal authority, used to coerce victims into cooperating. BBC send salesmen to visit unlicensed addresses from their database. These salesmen receive a commission not only for every TV license they sell, but also every successful prosecution they obtain. They therefore attempt to collect evidence of unlicensed TV viewing during their visits. UK police are brought in to oversee the inspections carried out by Capita if there is resistance.
As insane as this probably sounds to most people in other countries, it gets even worse. If authorities believe you are watching BBC related content without a license, they can visit your home to collect on fines, and with a warrant, this includes breaking and entering to search your property.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-british-high-court-officer-tries-break-home-collect-unpaid-tv-license-fees
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Yeah I never understood why the UK gets away with charging people for owning a television, seems like they'd revolt.
But then, here in the US we have to pay taxes when we buy some things, like homes/cars/boats/other luxury items, then each year we get another bill and have to pay taxes on it all over again, until we die.
Likewise we gotta pay taxes on how much we earn, then we pay taxes again on how much we spend.
Sort of sucks.
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If you think about it the British TV tax collection gives much the same incentive to bust people to fine them and give them a cut of the fines like drug prohibition laws give incentive with confiscation of property and auctioning the property off for money. They both get their cut for being Nazis in their enforcement efforts.
Then the UK government uses the money to fund BBC propaganda to support foreign wars against the British people's interests. Apparently few people would fund the BBC voluntarily. Who can blame them?
@metal-brain saidYeah because I mean look at all the Jews that were gassed by the Nazis in the 1940s for not having a TV licence and now here we go again. Oh the horror!
The cost of a TV license in the UK is £159 per year. BBC outsources their sales process to a third-party company called Capita, who operate under the TV Licensing brand name. Capita’s salesmen rebrand themselves as “Enforcement Officers” or “TV License Inspectors”. This creates a false impression of legal authority, used to coerce victims into cooperating. BBC send sale ...[text shortened]... hedge.com/political/watch-british-high-court-officer-tries-break-home-collect-unpaid-tv-license-fees
I realise that fascist halfwits like yourselves prefer corporations and belligerent foreign states to rule the airwaves so they can fill the spacecwith BS.
The revolt will come when an ultra right wing government finally dismantles the BBC by getting rid of the TV licence.
By the way most folk have a smart tv that they can stream on without watching or paying the BBC £160. Are you working on behalf of GB News the ultra right wing reactionary brain washing outlet that looks scarily familiar to RT
@shavixmir said"The enforcement is mandated, so legal"
Yeah… not really nazis though.
The enforcement is mandated, so legal.
You don’t have to watch the BBC.
By keeping the BBC out of private hands and commercial free, the concept is that the news station of the people is reliable.
So were the Nuremberg Laws. Your point?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws
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The BBC is nit biased it just tries to report reality and you know an authoritarian regime by it attacks on media that cannot be controlled by it or censored by corporate advertising . That’s the tories real problem with the BBC, it’s editorial independence and penchant for asking the government awkward questions
I suggest you stick with that unbiased GBNEWS dive where you can listen to all those ex Tory and Brexit party members slagging the BBC off for its bias 😂😂
-Removed-Yeah nearly as many sex scandals as the Tory party, but I exaggerate, nothing like as many as the Tory party
Of course we’d be much better informed if we relied on billionaire owned media outlets because they definitely have the interests of the majority at heart.
You must be getting on a bit dive, your turning in to Alf Garnet
@kevcvs57 saidSo you approve of the propaganda the BBC indoctrinates you with?
Said the Tory wannabe dictator
The BBC is nit biased it just tries to report reality and you know an authoritarian regime by it attacks on media that cannot be controlled by it or censored by corporate advertising . That’s the tories real problem with the BBC, it’s editorial independence and penchant for asking the government awkward questions
I suggest you stick with t ...[text shortened]... re you can listen to all those ex Tory and Brexit party members slagging the BBC off for its bias 😂😂
@metal-brain saidYeah… uh… comparing the Nuremberg laws to the TV license…
"The enforcement is mandated, so legal"
So were the Nuremberg Laws. Your point?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws
You do comprehend why nobody can be arsed taking you seriously.