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In Japan there was an infamous political party focused on getting rid of the hated TV licence system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZG95grO-vc https://www.y

• busterarm 2y ago
  In Japan the vast majority of people stopped paying their TV license after a string of NHK scandals and there's no penalty for failing to pay either. It's just not enforced. Also the party platform wasn't to get rid of the license system but to encrypt the broadcast signal so that only willing NHK viewers would pay for the license.
  • DrillShopper 2y ago
    The penalty for not paying the TV license is dealing with their harassment specialists (aka fee collectors)
• squidsoup 2y ago
  There's a great, and somewhat terrifying character relating to this, the "NHK Fee Collector" in Haruki Murakami's 1Q84.
• bigmadden 2y ago
  Some people actually voted them into office as a joke and they turned out to be a bunch of racists with some really awful views and were overall absolute shite politicians. Who could have imagined?