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No one gets sent to prison because of TV licences.

• threshold 5y ago
  False. You get a fine and if you can’t pay, jail. And they did that at scale. Punishing the poor for not funding state propaganda television. And how about that time in the 80s when MPs went on primetime TV and ate cheeseburgers telling the public british beef was safe - knowing it wasn’t - protecting the small farms that skirted the safety precautions and were slaughtering sick animals and feeding people poison. Then thousands dropped dead of CJD a few years later. How about that time the british media told the public to allow themselves to get infected by covid and encouraged them to gather? Whats the body count for that I wonder?
  • Veen 5y ago
    Fewer than 200 people died of Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the UK in the last 30 years. You're talking shite.
    • threshold 5y ago
      The hell I am. 1 in 2000 UK citizens are infected with abnormal prions. CJD can be latent for 20-40 years. In addition they covered up early deaths from CJD to prevent a revolt, mislabeling cause of death. Seriously pull on that thread
• chaircher 5y ago
  No one you know has been sent to prison over TV licences. The TV licence people disproportionately target vulnerable people. If you're not living in a homeless shelter or leaving local authority care you're probably not going to come into contact with them.
  • M2Ys4U 5y ago
    >No one you know has been sent to prison over TV licences. Nobody ever gets sent to prison for not having a TV licence. It is not an imprisonable offence. People occasionally get sent to prison for refusing to pay the court-ordered fine that they get for not having a TV licence, but that's a different thing all together.
    • threshold 5y ago
      "but that's a different thing all together." Only if by different you mean the same.
      • M2Ys4U 5y ago
        No, I said different and I meant different.
        • vimacs2 5y ago
          Think the OP is right on this one actually. If you're struggling financially, this is functionally equivilent to criminalising poverty regardless of the steps involved. It's also frankly bullshit that a corporation can charge a toll for all live television broadcasts in a country even when it has no bearing on their own content. Simple solution: Put all of their shite behind an id system and charge a fee for that. Don't monopolise fucking live tv as if it runs off the stored farts of Jimmy Saville.
        • threshold 5y ago
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          • M2Ys4U 5y ago
            What the hell are you going on about?
          • rutthenut 5y ago
            I believe the topic is about the miscarriage of justice based on how the post office and fujitsu wrongfully harassed and took people to court over bugs, which were known about by those organisations. Hence of relevance to Hacker News types. It isn't meant to be about your jaundiced view of 'BBC propaganda'...
            • threshold 5y ago
              But it is propaganda - thats what the BBC does. I think the HN types would be very interested in government propaganda from an organization that forced UK citizens to fund it or face jail. I mean you can’t just slip in a statement like that and expect silence and a nod of the head. It’s borderline orwellian