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Re:TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England by deanclatworthy on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @04:46AM (#25831666)
Which is absurd to pay for if you're a foreigner not speaking Finnish, as the public broadcaster basically offers no content in English other than (poorly) translated news.
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Re:TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England by Hamuko on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @05:10AM (#25831812)
YLE offers news in Finnish, Swedish, Finnish sign language, simple Finnish, English (https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/ doesn't look that poorly translated), Russian, Sámi and Karelian. Areena also has many English-language programs that are just subtitled into Finnish.
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Re:TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England by kzrdude on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @05:31AM (#25831949)
Taxes are mostly a package deal :)
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Re:TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England by alibarber on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @07:47AM (#25832951)
To be fair it might appear poorly translated to an English speaker mainly due to the fact that there isn't much of it, in Finnish or otherwise.

Some people in Finland regard this as a feature not a bug, although it's taken me a while to get used to.

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Re:TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England by doikor on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @08:17AM (#25833130)
YLE also has some originally English content (and as we don't dub adult programs in Finland you can enjoy them too). For example the early seasons Game of Thrones were shown on YLE in Finland (this was before HBO Nordic existed)
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