[snowpid]

" The government will put you in jail if you don't pay your gym membership or your parking fines and ignore it after it's sent to collections. It's not specific to the TV tax." So I can quit the contract if you like to?

" Do you realize how silly it is to tell me how a system you hitherto didn't know about works by quoting something I wrote? Feel free to check the source it cites for more context. " I do know how good the systems work. Maybe you should accept people can come to different conclusions. This like arguing with a conspiracy theorist.

[nicbou]

Remember that the premise of this conversation is that ZDF is not government-run. That you are legally required to pay the TV tax has no bearing on that. The government neither collects nor allocates that money, and has no control over the broadcasters.

[snowpid]

It is govermental run. as it is no private institution, as I am forced to by the govermental and it is collected by govt agencies.

The only true thing that my parliament does not have any say but some obscure council with e.g. representatives from the church.

It is a shitty system with left bias news, shitty films and shitty tv shows. Only the left defends it fearing they might lose a powerful media institution.