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Yes, the lower Working Class prefers Rupert Murdoch's Drek on Pay-TV .
Or worse: Economic Refugees with their Bollywood movies on CD-Video. Ironically, these are the people most easily bluffed into paying TV Licence with the £1,000 penalty bandied about. Truth is, you are not required to answer any questions Govt may pose unless you're subpnaed - which They won't do, as the process would cost Them more than the £1,000 ! |
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The enforcement system in the UK doesn't work like this. It's actually quite nasty, involving threatening letters and sometimes personal visits to unlicensed homes. Subject to much criticism, even by those who support the licence fee. The authorities are very coy about revealing the number of prosecutions for evasion and I suspect there are actually very few. AFAIK nobody has ever been prosecuted using evidence from a detector van. These vans are largely bluff to frighten people into buying a licence. In any case, the enforcement methods are irrelevant to whether licence fee is a good method of funding PSB in the UK. |
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People in UK are lucky in that they can Starve Govt TV of funding if they choose |
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US Govt funding Spanish Language PBS channel -- level of funding not revealed --
This contradicts Govt's own policy that immigrants abandon foreign language |
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Australian Govt funded SBS metastasizes into bureaucratic monster pandering
to ethnic minorities with foreign language programming nobody wants But it's working out for the Bureaucrats w/ Salaries as high as $400k Vietnamese refugees angered by Communist propaganda on SBS "The Vietnamese service, taken from the government-controlled channel VTV4, was protested against by the Vietnamese community, many of whom found the bulletin's portrayal of the communist Vietnamese flag and Ho Chi Minh offensive. The Vietnamese Community of Australia claimed that the program's lack of reports on political arrests and religious oppression were also offensive, especially to those who had fled the country following the Vietnam War.[6]" |
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