75% of people prosecuted were women 🤯

  • Skeezix
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    23 months ago

    TIL that people in the UK have to pay a fee just to watch TV.

    • @[email protected]
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      3 months ago

      Not* from the UK, but I believe it’s a fee to pay for access to FTA television (such as the BBC).

      If you can prove you do not have access and do not use (and I believe this also includes the BBC iViewer?!), you can not pay.

      At the same time, here in Australia our two equivalent channels (ABC & SBS) are directly funded by the Government, which we pay for indirectly via taxes.

      Seems like a more reasonable implementation, IMO.