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Originally Posted by thenry
A billion  how do they enforce the license fee other than voluntary payment(s)  |
TV licence evasion is still a criminal offence in the UK. However all laws rely on voluntary agreement on the part of the population to be bound by them because the courts couldn’t hear all the cases if everyone decided to simply ignore the law. Generally, a healthy society agrees that it is better for everyone if everyone obeys.
That tends to fall apart when laws are seen as unjust. The extremely high rate of non-payment suggests we’re getting to a point where people think the fee is unfair in sufficient numbers that it is beyond impossible to prosecute them.