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What's that about, for the non-Brits casually hanging out in this community?
The BBC is weirdly aggressive about trying to get people to pay for their TV usage, but they’re also pretty impotent. They’ll try to come into your house to see if you have a TV set, at which point you’re probably obligated to pay for the license. You don’t have to let them in, though, so all they can really do is pester you
Ah ok, same as in Germany then. Though they are getting more and more liberties, to the point of signing you up by themselves and then it's on you to prove you don't own a TV. And since a few years, even a laptop or phone qualifies since you can use those to access public broadcasting channels through their website, making it really hard to prove you got absolutely nothing, unless you can somehow convince them to be both blind and deaf.
In Germany you can eventually get in trouble for not paying it, but afaik that’s not the case in the UK.
Yeah I managed to dodge them for a solid decade and then eventually moved away. Back then it was alright, they had no rights to demand entry just like in the UK, plus if you moved house you could instruct the city hall where you register your residency to put an address block in place (usually used for stalking victims and such, but there is no law forbidding average citizens from using one). That put your name on a blacklist denying access to your whereabouts to anyone but electorate campaigners and the tax office. So the TV fee people knew that I moved (since previous mail bounced), but had no means of getting my contact. I believe nowadays since they qualify as an actual tax they might be legally able to get the data regardless.