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Everyone gives the UK shit about the TV license but the thing is we have the option to not pay it if we don't watch live terrestrial TV. Other countries in Europe do not have that option and their taxes yearly just include it whether they like it or not. If you don't watch TV in say oh I don't know ... Germany :), you are paying to watch TV in your taxes bottom-line period and you cannot do anything about it.
If I just have a TV and I use it to stream Netflix and shit like that or watch idle dross on YouTube or use it for vidรฉo juegos or as my PC monitor I don't have to pay a license. It's solely to fund the BBC and nothing else, if you don't use it that way (to watch live telly innit) you don't pay it. I have done it before where I was at a place that I didn't watch TV at and told them on the phone I don't need a license and they said OK and that was the end of it.
NOW
The enforcement of the TV license is ridiculous, over-zealous, and stupid and the level of strong-arming and privacy invasion just go get that money deserves mockery globally non-stop.
Where I live at, there are two different ways of writing the address; 123 Fucktard Street apt. 2 or 123 Fucktard Street apt. B. They are the same address. The address registered "Apt. 2" has a license, but apt B. does not, but they are the SAME address in that they both describe the same location.
But they keep sending fucking mail to my address chasing me about "apt. B" even though the address "apt. B" is just a differing nomenclature of the same location. It's all automated and I keep being sent threatening letters of INVESTIGATIONS and DOOR KNOCKS and WE'RE ONTO YOU by ostensibly a fucking machine that is checking a list of address databases and it's so fucking stupid.
Funniest part? I can't watch TV at this location ANYWAY because the fucking TV aerial on the wall is broken!