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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

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

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