[IrishJourno]

Yes, the United States has a you-can-recieve-anything philosophy (with some limits for old analog cellphone frequencies, and restrictions on using, e.g. a police scanner in a car) that isn't matched in many other countries, which is the legal basis of how Ireland and the U.K. require you to buy a license to watch over-the-air television.

[secondcoming]

The TV licence has been expanded to include any live broadcast, so watching sport on Amazon requires a TV licence.

I also think that in the UK it’s illegal to listen to ATC.

[edrxty]

How did the UK ever get to be this way?

[H8crilA]

Centuries of legal scar tissue accumulated through continuous, unbroken political order.