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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 shelter or leaving local authority care you're probably not going to come into contact with them.

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>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.

"but that's a different thing all together."

Only if by different you mean the same.

No, I said different and I meant different.

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.

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