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THIS IS GREAT!

49 (49.5%)

THIS FUCKING SUCKS, I LIKE HAVING HEARING DAMAGE!

3 (3%)

I DON'T EVEN LIVE IN AMERICA AND HAVE NO OPINION ON THIS, BUT I'M A NOSY SOCIALIST!

47 (47.5%)

Total Members Voted: 97

[miauw62]

And can't you just pay the fine and go on watching tv?

[freeformschooler]

Oh God, FINALLY. THANK YOU FCC.

[Neonivek]

I AM NOT PART OF AMERICA AND AM DOOMED!!! UNLESS LEGISLATION HERE HAS ALREADY DELT WITH IT AND IT LIKELY DID!

[Flying Dice]

ABOUT FUCKING TIME.

[Neonivek]

Ok it must be an American thing.

[Zrk2]

I TOO CAN POST OBNOXIOUSLY!

[Flying Dice]

Ok it must be an American thing.

ONE THINKS YOU WOULD NOTICE IF IT WAS A PROBLEM FOR YOU AS WELL, UNLESS YOU ARE DEAF OR HAVE NEVER BEEN WITHIN THE VICINITY OF AN ACTIVATED EAR-DESTROYING DEVICE TELEVISION. THEREFORE IT IS REASONABLE TO ASSUME THAT, PAIRED WITH IT BEING LEGISLATION IN THE U.S., THAT IS INDEED AN "AMERICAN THING".

[Willfor]

Ok it must be an American thing.

It's not just an American thing. At all.

I wish they hadn't said "We're leaving it up to customers to complain", and instead set an RMS level limit. That's a physically measurable standard that equates to hearing better than peak measurements, and deals with the real problem: Compressing the audio of the commercials until it is a massive sausage-form.

I also wish this was a thing in Canada.

[Ancre]

THIS IS GREAT. I WISH THEY'D DO THE SAME HERE !

[RedKing]

Ok it must be an American thing.

Compressing the audio of the commercials until it is a massive sausage-form.

MMMMM...COMMERCIAL AUDIO SAUSAGE

[Pnx]

The TV license thing is considered a tax, so yeah, you can go to jail for refusing to pay it, hypothetically, I understand there's some plausible deniability wiggle room on this one. The way the licenses are enforced by the committee is a common gripe about the entire thing. They tend to use a lot of scare tactics like sending out letters that threaten legal action to people who don't have a license (my brother got one when they didn't have TV), and they air ads saying "if you don't pay your license, we will catch you!".

It gives subsidies out which ostensibly it pays for the BBC's bajillion edutainment children's shows and is supposed to be there to improve the quality of the BBC's programming, which is something I'm actually for given that American television seems to be kind of shit in comparison (which may or may not have anything to do with subsidies, but I'm not sure I'd be willing to take that chance). I think everyone would probably be a bit happier if it were folded into income tax or something.

[Loud Whispers]

It's ok, you'll still get your daily dose of ads beamed directly into your brain. It's the product of years of indoctrination and subliminal bombardment from having adverts everywhere in your life.
It's inevitable.
We're killing the competition; then we're killing the world.
One brand at a time.
One person at a time.

[RedKing]

The TV license thing is considered a tax, so yeah, you can go to jail for refusing to pay it, hypothetically, I understand there's some plausible deniability wiggle room on this one. The way the licenses are enforced by the committee is a common gripe about the entire thing. They tend to use a lot of scare tactics like sending out letters that threaten legal action to people who don't have a license (my brother got one when they didn't have TV), and they air ads saying "if you don't pay your license, we will catch you!".

It gives subsidies out which ostensibly it pays for the BBC's bajillion edutainment children's shows and is supposed to be there to improve the quality of the BBC's programming, which is something I'm actually for given that American television seems to be kind of shit in comparison (which may or may not have anything to do with subsidies, but I'm not sure I'd be willing to take that chance). I think everyone would probably be a bit happier if it were folded into income tax or something.

Granted, if the options were:

1. Pay a TV tax and get good-quality programming.
2. Watch six trillion commercials a night and get least-common-denominator programming.

Yeah, I'd go with #1. Essentially that's the divide between subscription cable (HBO, for example) and broadcast (CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX) in the US. I guess the difference is that there *is* a #2 option in the US, versus no choice in the UK.

I pity your lack of free, shitty reality TV laden with repetitive beer and car commercials. You poor, cultured bastards.

[Flying Dice]

The TV license thing is considered a tax, so yeah, you can go to jail for refusing to pay it, hypothetically, I understand there's some plausible deniability wiggle room on this one. The way the licenses are enforced by the committee is a common gripe about the entire thing. They tend to use a lot of scare tactics like sending out letters that threaten legal action to people who don't have a license (my brother got one when they didn't have TV), and they air ads saying "if you don't pay your license, we will catch you!".

It gives subsidies out which ostensibly it pays for the BBC's bajillion edutainment children's shows and is supposed to be there to improve the quality of the BBC's programming, which is something I'm actually for given that American television seems to be kind of shit in comparison (which may or may not have anything to do with subsidies, but I'm not sure I'd be willing to take that chance). I think everyone would probably be a bit happier if it were folded into income tax or something.

Granted, if the options were:

1. Pay a TV tax and get good-quality programming.
2. Watch six trillion commercials a night and get least-common-denominator programming.

Yeah, I'd go with #1. Essentially that's the divide between subscription cable (HBO, for example) and broadcast (CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX) in the US. I guess the difference is that there *is* a #2 option in the US, versus no choice in the UK.

I pity your lack of free, shitty reality TV laden with repetitive beer and car commercials. You poor, cultured bastards.

Especially if you enjoy having your television time being MST3Kalike time.

[Leafsnail]

Yeah, I'd go with #1. Essentially that's the divide between subscription cable (HBO, for example) and broadcast (CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX) in the US. I guess the difference is that there *is* a #2 option in the US, versus no choice in the UK.

THE TV LICENSE IS A LOT CHEAPER THAN PRETTY MUCH ANY SUBSCRIPTION (EG 4X CHEAPER THAN THE STANDARD SKY PACKAGE) AND PROVIDES MUCH BETTER CONTENT I'D SAY ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING IT HAS RADIO CHANNELS TOO AND NO ADVERTS

IT WOULD BE MORE EFFICIENT TO PAY FOR IT VIA INCOME TAX LIKE MOST THINGS BUT THAT WOULD MAKE THE DAILY MAIL EVEN MORE ANNOYED